Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend
The Wolf and the Lamb
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to
lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the
Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him:
"Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated
the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then
said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied
the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf,
"You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet
drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink
to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying,
"Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every
one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for
his tyranny.
The Bat and the Weasels
A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded
to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by
nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was
not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free. Shortly
afterwards the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by
another Weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him. The
Weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The Bat
assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat, and thus a second
time escaped.
It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.
The Ass and the Grasshopper
AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly
enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody,
demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such
beautiful voices. They replied, "The dew." The Ass resolved that
he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.
The Lion and the Mouse
A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face.
Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when
the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: "If you would only spare
my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness." The Lion
laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the
Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the
ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope
with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim
"You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you,
expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now
you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on
a Lion."
The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller
A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day
he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live
with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and
that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller
replied, "The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned,
for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again
with your charcoal."
Like will draw like.
The Father and His Sons
A FATHER had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling
among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his
exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration
of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told
them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done so, he
placed the faggot into the hands of each of them in succession,
and ordered them to break it in pieces. They tried with all
their strength, and were not able to do it. He next opened the
faggot, took the sticks separately, one by one, and again put
them into his sons' hands, upon which they broke them easily. He
then addressed them in these words: "My sons, if you are of one
mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot,
uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are
divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these
sticks."
The Boy Hunting Locusts
A BOY was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number,
when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached
out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said:
If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and
all your locusts too!"
The Cock and the Jewel
A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a
precious stone and exclaimed: "If your owner had found thee, and
not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy
first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would
rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world."
The Kingdom of the Lion
THE BEASTS of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He
was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle
as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal
proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts,
and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf
and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag,
the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and
amity. The Hare said, "Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in
which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side
of the strong." And after the Hare said this, he ran for his
life.
The Wolf and the Crane
A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a
large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised
payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed:
"Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in
having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the
mouth and jaws of a wolf."
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you
escape injury for your pains.
The Fisherman Piping
A FISHERMAN skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the
seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes
in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of
their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below.
At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and
casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish.
When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said:
"O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance,
but now that I have ceased you do so merrily."
Hercules and the Wagoner
A CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the
wheels sank down deep into a rut. The rustic driver, stupefied
and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter
loud cries to Hercules to come and help him. Hercules, it is
said, appeared and thus addressed him: "Put your shoulders to the
wheels, my man. Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me
for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or
depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain."
Self-help is the best help.
The Ants and the Grasshopper
THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected
in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed
by and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of
him, "Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?' He
replied, "I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in
singing." They then said in derision: "If you were foolish enough
to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the
winter."
The Traveler and His Dog
A TRAVELER about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the
door stretching himself. He asked him sharply: "Why do you stand
there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so come with me
instantly." The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: "O, master! I am
quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting."
The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.
The Dog and the Shadow
A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in
his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that
of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He
immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other
Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that
which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and
his own, because the stream swept it away.
The Mole and His Mother
A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: "I
am sure than I can see, Mother!" In the desire to prove to him
his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of
frankincense, and asked, "What is it?' The young Mole said, "It
is a pebble." His Mother exclaimed: "My son, I am afraid that you
are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.
The Herdsman and the Lost Bull
A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from
the fold. After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that,
if he could only discover the thief who had stolen the Calf, he
would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian
Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as he ascended a
small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the Calf.
Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to
heaven, and said: "Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the
Guardian Deities of the forest if I could only find out who had
robbed me; but now that I have discovered the thief, I would
willingly add a full-grown Bull to the Calf I have lost, if I may
only secure my own escape from him in safety."
The Hare and the Tortoise
A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the
Tortoise, who replied, laughing: "Though you be swift as the
wind, I will beat you in a race." The Hare, believing her
assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and
they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the
goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started
together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on
with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last
waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise
had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her
fatigue.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The Pomegranate, Apple-Tree, and Bramble
THE POMEGRANATE and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most
beautiful. When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from
the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful
tone: "Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from
such vain disputings."
The Farmer and the Stork
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a
number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he
trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was
earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. "Pray save
me, Master," he said, "and let me go free this once. My broken
limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a
Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and
slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers--
they are not the least like those of a Crane." The Farmer
laughed aloud and said, "It may be all as you say, I only know
this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you
must die in their company."
Birds of a feather flock together.
The Farmer and the Snake
ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He
had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom.
The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its
natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal
wound. "Oh," cried the Farmer with his last breath, "I am
rightly served for pitying a scoundrel."
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
The Fawn and His Mother
A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, "You are larger than a dog,
and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as
a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?"
She smiled, and said: "I know full well, my son, that all you say
is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even
the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as
fast as I can."
No arguments will give courage to the coward.
The Bear and the Fox
A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all
animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had
such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body.
A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, "Oh!
that you would eat the dead and not the living."
The Swallow and the Crow
THE SWALLOW and the Crow had a contention about their plumage.
The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, "Your feathers are
all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the
winter."
Fair weather friends are not worth much.
The Mountain in Labor
A MOUNTAIN was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises
were heard, and crowds of people came from all parts to see what
was the matter. While they were assembled in anxious expectation
of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse.
Don't make much ado about nothing.
The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion
THE ASS and the Fox, having entered into partnership together for
their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. They
had not proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing
imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for
him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not
to harm the Fox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not
be injured, the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he
should fall into it. The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured,
immediately clutched the Fox, and attacked the Ass at his
leisure.
The Tortoise and the Eagle
A TORTOISE, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the
sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly.
An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what
reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float
her in the air. "I will give you," she said, "all the riches of
the Red Sea." "I will teach you to fly then," said the Eagle; and
taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds
suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing
her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of
death: "I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do
with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the
earth?'
If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.
The Flies and the Honey-Pot
A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been
overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it,
ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the
honey that they could not use their wings, nor release
themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring,
they exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of
a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves."
Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.
The Man and the Lion
A MAN and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon
began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in
strength and prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a
statue carved in stone, which represented "a Lion strangled by a
Man." The traveler pointed to it and said: "See there! How strong
we are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts." The
Lion replied: "This statue was made by one of you men. If we
Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed
under the paw of the Lion."
One story is good, till another is told.
The Farmer and the Cranes
SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly
sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an
empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when
the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they
ceased to take any notice of it and would not move. The Farmer,
on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great
number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying
to each other, "It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this
man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in
earnest what he can do."
If words suffice not, blows must follow.
The Dog in the Manger
A DOG lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented
the oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them.
"What a selfish Dog!" said one of them to his companions; "he
cannot eat the hay himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat
who can."
The Fox and the Goat
A FOX one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of
escape. A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and
seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good. Concealing his
sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish
praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and
encouraging him to descend. The Goat, mindful only of his
thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox
informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a
scheme for their common escape. "If," said he, "you will place
your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I will run up
your back and escape, and will help you out afterwards." The Goat
readily assented and the Fox leaped upon his back. Steadying
himself with the Goat's horns, he safely reached the mouth of the
well and made off as fast as he could. When the Goat upbraided
him for breaking his promise, he turned around and cried out,
"You foolish old fellow! If you had as many brains in your head
as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down
before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to
dangers from which you had no means of escape."
Look before you leap.
The Bear and the Two Travelers
TWO MEN were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on
their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and
concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he
must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came
up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held
his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he
could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch
a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler
descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend
what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. "He gave me this
advice," his companion replied. "Never travel with a friend who
deserts you at the approach of danger."
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
The Oxen and the Axle-Trees
A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of
Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the
Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: "Hullo there! why
do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not
you, ought to cry out."
Those who suffer most cry out the least.
The Thirsty Pigeon
A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water
painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture,
she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed
against the signboard, jarring herself terribly. Having broken
her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by
one of the bystanders.
Zeal should not outrun discretion.
The Raven and the Swan
A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same
beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white
color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the
Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his
living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But
cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change
their color, while through want of food he perished.
Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
The Goat and the Goatherd
A GOATHERD had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock.
He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no
attention to the summons. At last the Goatherd threw a stone,
and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master.
The Goat replied, "Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak
though I be silent."
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.
The Miser
A MISER sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he
buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and
went to look at daily. One of his workmen observed his frequent
visits to the spot and decided to watch his movements. He soon
discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging down,
came to the lump of gold, and stole it. The Miser, on his next
visit, found the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to
make loud lamentations. A neighbor, seeing him overcome with
grief and learning the cause, said, "Pray do not grieve so; but
go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the
gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same
service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did
not make the slightest use of it."
The Sick Lion
A LION, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself
with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned
to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking
care that his sickness should be publicly known. The beasts
expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the
Lion devoured them. After many of the beasts had thus
disappeared, the Fox discovered the trick and presenting himself
to the Lion, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful
distance, and asked him how he was. "I am very middling,"
replied the Lion, "but why do you stand without? Pray enter
within to talk with me." "No, thank you," said the Fox. "I
notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but
I see no trace of any returning."
He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.
The Horse and Groom
A GROOM used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down
his Horse, but at the same time stole his oats and sold them for
his own profit. "Alas!" said the Horse, "if you really wish me
to be in good condition, you should groom me less, and feed me
more."
The Ass and the Lapdog
A MAN had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The
Ass was left in a stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat,
just as any other Ass would. The Lapdog knew many tricks and was
a great favorite with his master, who often fondled him and
seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to
eat. The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding
the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens
from the farm. He often lamented his own hard fate and
contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at
last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his
master's house, kicking up his heels without measure, and
frisking and fawning as well as he could. He next tried to jump
about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the
table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms. He then
attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his back. The
servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of
their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his
stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. The Ass, as he returned
to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: "I have
brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to
labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day
like that useless little Lapdog!"
The Lioness
A CONTROVERSY prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which
of the animals deserved the most credit for producing the
greatest number of whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously
into the presence of the Lioness and demanded of her the
settlement of the dispute. "And you," they said, "how many sons
have you at a birth?' The Lioness laughed at them, and said:
"Why! I have only one; but that one is altogether a thoroughbred
Lion."
The value is in the worth, not in the number.
The Boasting Traveler
A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on
returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic
feats he had performed in the different places he had visited.
Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had
leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap
anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons
who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. One of
the bystanders interrupted him, saying: "Now, my good man, if
this be all true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this
to be Rhodes, and leap for us."
The Cat and the Cock
A CAT caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable
excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men
by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep.
The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the
benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors.
The Cat replied, "Although you abound in specious apologies, I
shall not remain supperless"; and he made a meal of him.
The Piglet, the Sheep, and the Goat
A YOUNG PIG was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep.
On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted
and squeaked and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat
complained of his distressing cries, saying, "He often handles
us, and we do not cry out." To this the Pig replied, "Your
handling and mine are very different things. He catches you only
for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very
life."
The Boy and the Filberts
A BOY put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped
as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out
his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the
pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to
withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his
disappointment. A bystander said to him, "Be satisfied with half
the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."
Do not attempt too much at once.
The Lion in Love
A LION demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The
Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request,
hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. He
expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his
daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract
his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully
afraid of both. The Lion cheerfully assented to the proposal.
But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his
request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his
club, and drove him away into the forest.
The Laborer and the Snake
A SNAKE, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage,
inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager's infant son. Grieving
over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake. The next
day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe,
but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the
end of its tail. After some time the Cottager, afraid that the
Snake would bite him also, endeavored to make peace, and placed
some bread and salt in the hole. The Snake, slightly hissing,
said: "There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever
I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you
see me you will be thinking of the death of your son."
No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused
the injury.
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
ONCE UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in
order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a
sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his
costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the
fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly
secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night
to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf
instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
Harm seek. harm find.
The Ass and the Mule
A MULETEER set forth on a journey, driving before him an Ass and
a Mule, both well laden. The Ass, as long as he traveled along
the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to
ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more
than he could bear. He entreated his companion to relieve him of
a small portion, that he might carry home the rest; but the Mule
paid no attention to the request. The Ass shortly afterwards
fell down dead under his burden. Not knowing what else to do in
so wild a region, the Muleteer placed upon the Mule the load
carried by the Ass in addition to his own, and at the top of all
placed the hide of the Ass, after he had skinned him. The Mule,
groaning beneath his heavy burden, said to himself: "I am treated
according to my deserts. If I had only been willing to assist
the Ass a little in his need, I should not now be bearing,
together with his burden, himself as well."
The Frogs Asking for a King
THE FROGS, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent
ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a King. Perceiving their
simplicity, he cast down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs
were terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall and hid
themselves in the depths of the pool. But as soon as they
realized that the huge log was motionless, they swam again to the
top of the water, dismissed their fears, climbed up, and began
squatting on it in contempt. After some time they began to think
themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler,
and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set
over them another sovereign. He then gave them an Eel to govern
them. When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they sent
yet a third time to Jupiter to beg him to choose for them still
another King. Jupiter, displeased with all their complaints,
sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day till there
were none left to croak upon the lake.
The Boys and the Frogs
SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the
water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of
them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water,
cried out: "Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to
us."
The Sick Stag
A SICK STAG lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground.
His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health,
and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been
placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but
from the failure of the means of living.
Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
The Salt Merchant and His Ass
A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. His road
home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step,
fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably
lighter, as the water melted the sack. The Peddler retraced his
steps and refilled his panniers with a larger quantity of salt
than before. When he came again to the stream, the Ass fell down
on purpose in the same spot, and, regaining his feet with the
weight of his load much diminished, brayed triumphantly as if he
had obtained what he desired. The Peddler saw through his trick
and drove him for the third time to the coast, where he bought a
cargo of sponges instead of salt. The Ass, again playing the
fool, fell down on purpose when he reached the stream, but the
sponges became swollen with water, greatly increasing his load.
And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his
back a double burden.
The Oxen and the Butchers
THE OXEN once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who
practiced a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a
certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns
for the contest. But one of them who was exceedingly old (for
many a field had he plowed) thus spoke: "These Butchers, it is
true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with
no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we shall fall into
the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double
death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers
should perish, yet will men never want beef."
Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
The Lion, the Mouse, and the Fox
A LION, fatigued by the heat of a summer's day, fell fast asleep
in his den. A Mouse ran over his mane and ears and woke him from
his slumbers. He rose up and shook himself in great wrath, and
searched every corner of his den to find the Mouse. A Fox seeing
him said: "A fine Lion you are, to be frightened of a Mouse."
"'Tis not the Mouse I fear," said the Lion; "I resent his
familiarity and ill-breeding."
Little liberties are great offenses.
The Vain Jackdaw
JUPITER DETERMINED, it is said, to create a sovereign over the
birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should
all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose
the most beautiful among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing
his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and
collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his
companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping
thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all. When the
appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before
Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many
feathered finery. But when Jupiter proposed to make him king
because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly
protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving
the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.
The Goatherd and the Wild Goats
A GOATHERD, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide,
found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up
together with his own for the night. The next day it snowed very
hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding
places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold. He gave his
own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the
strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay
with him and of making them his own. When the thaw set in, he
led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as
fast as they could to the mountains. The Goatherd scolded them
for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he
had taken more care of them than of his own herd. One of them,
turning about, said to him: "That is the very reason why we are
so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the
Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came
after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves."
Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.
The Mischievous Dog
A DOG used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and
to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about
his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence
wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog
grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the
marketplace. One day an old hound said to him: Why do you make
such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not,
believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of
disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill
mannered dog."
Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail
A FOX caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail.
Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule
to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other
Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making
up for his own deprivation. He assembled a good many Foxes and
publicly advised them to cut off their tails, saying that they
would not only look much better without them, but that they would
get rid of the weight of the brush, which was a very great
inconvenience. One of them interrupting him said, "If you had
not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not thus
counsel us."
The Boy and the Nettles
A BOY was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother,
saying, "Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it
gently." "That was just why it stung you," said his Mother. "The
next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be
soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you."
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
The Man and His Two Sweethearts
A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two
women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other
well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted
by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer
visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The
younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an
old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she
could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very
soon found that he had not a hair left on his head.
Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
The Astronomer
AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One
evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole
attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep
well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and
cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning
what had happened said: "Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to
pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on
earth?'
The Wolves and the Sheep
"WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?"
said the Wolves to the Sheep. "Those evil-disposed Dogs have
much to answer for. They always bark whenever we approach you
and attack us before we have done any harm. If you would only
dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of
peace and reconciliation between us." The Sheep, poor silly
creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon
the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.
The Old Woman and the Physician
AN OLD WOMAN having lost the use of her eyes, called in a
Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the
presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he
should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity
remained, she should give him nothing. This agreement being
made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her
eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her
property little by little. And when he had got all she had, he
healed her and demanded the promised payment. The Old Woman,
when she recovered her sight and saw none of her goods in her
house, would give him nothing. The Physician insisted on his
claim, and. as she still refused, summoned her before the Judge.
The Old Woman, standing up in the Court, argued: "This man here
speaks the truth in what he says; for I did promise to give him a
sum of money if I should recover my sight: but if I continued
blind, I was to give him nothing. Now he declares that I am
healed. I on the contrary affirm that I am still blind; for when
I lost the use of my eyes, I saw in my house various chattels and
valuable goods: but now, though he swears I am cured of my
blindness, I am not able to see a single thing in it."
The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle
TWO GAME COCKS were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the
farmyard. One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished
Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the
conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed
exultingly with all his might. An Eagle sailing through the air
pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons. The
vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and ruled
henceforth with undisputed mastery.
Pride goes before destruction.
The Charger and the Miller
A CHARGER, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a
mill instead of going out to battle. But when he was compelled
to grind instead of serving in the wars, he bewailed his change
of fortune and called to mind his former state, saying, "Ah!
Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed
from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I
cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the
battle." "Forbear," said the Miller to him, "harping on what was
of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups
and downs of fortune."
The Fox and the Monkey
A MONKEY once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased
them all by his performance that they elected him their King. A
Fox, envying him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a
trap, and leading the Monkey to the place where it was, said that
she had found a store, but had not used it, she had kept it for him
as treasure trove of his kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold
of it. The Monkey approached carelessly and was caught in the
trap; and on his accusing the Fox of purposely leading him into
the snare, she replied, "O Monkey, and are you, with such a mind
as yours, going to be King over the Beasts?"
The Horse and His Rider
A HORSE SOLDIER took the utmost pains with his charger. As long
as the war lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow-helper in all
emergencies and fed him carefully with hay and corn. But when
the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him
carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish
drudgery and ill-treatment. War was again proclaimed, however,
and when the trumpet summoned him to his standard, the Soldier
put on his charger its military trappings, and mounted, being
clad in his heavy coat of mail. The Horse fell down straightway
under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his
master, "You must now go to the war on foot, for you have
transformed me from a Horse into an Ass; and how can you expect
that I can again turn in a moment from an Ass to a Horse?'
The Belly and the Members
THE MEMBERS of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said,
"Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your
wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy
yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?' The Members carried out
their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly. The
whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet,
mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.
The Vine and the Goat
A VINE was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and
grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its
leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: "Why do you thus injure
me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass
left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for
if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I
shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a
victim to the sacrifice."
Jupiter and the Monkey
JUPITER ISSUED a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and
promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be
deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and
presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed,
hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the
promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on the presentation
of her son. She resolutely said, "I know not whether Jupiter
will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at
least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and
most beautiful of all."
The Widow and Her Little Maidens
A WIDOW who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait
on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the
morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive
labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so
early. When they had done this, they found that they had only
prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no
longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work
in the middle of the night.
The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf
A SHEPHERD-BOY, who watched a flock of sheep near a village,
brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out,
"Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at
them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last.
The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of
terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the
sheep"; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any
assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure
lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.
There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
The Cat and the Birds
A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing
dressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bag
of instruments becoming his profession, went to call on them. He
knocked at the door and inquired of the inmates how they all did,
saying that if they were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for
them and cure them. They replied, "We are all very well, and
shall continue so, if you will only be good enough to go away,
and leave us as we are."
The Kid and the Wolf
A KID standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a
Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him.
The Wolf, looking up, said, "Sirrah! I hear thee: yet it is not
thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing."
Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the
strong.
The Ox and the Frog
AN OX drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and
crushed one of them to death. The Mother coming up, and missing
one of her sons, inquired of his brothers what had become of him.
"He is dead, dear Mother; for just now a very huge beast with
four great feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with
his cloven heel." The Frog, puffing herself out, inquired, "if
the beast was as big as that in size." "Cease, Mother, to puff
yourself out," said her son, "and do not be angry; for you would,
I assure you, sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness
of that monster."
The Shepherd and the Wolf
A SHEPHERD once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and
after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring
flocks. The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the
Shepherd, "Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a
sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock."
The Father and His Two Daughters
A MAN had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the
other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who
had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all
things went with her. She said, "All things are prospering with
me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of
rain, in order that the plants may be well watered." Not long
after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and
likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, "I want for
nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may
continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks
might be dried." He said to her, "If your sister wishes for rain,
and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my
wishes?'
The Farmer and His Sons
A FATHER, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his
sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had
given it. He called them to his bedside and said, "My sons,
there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards." The sons,
after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug
over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but
the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and
superabundant crop.
The Crab and Its Mother
A CRAB said to her son, "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child?
It is far more becoming to go straight forward." The young Crab
replied: "Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the
straight way, I will promise to walk in it." The Mother tried in
vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her
child.
Example is more powerful than precept.
The Heifer and the Ox
A HEIFER saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and
tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being
compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival,
the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer
with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of
the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a
smile to the Heifer: "For this you were allowed to live in
idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed."
The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of Justice
A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling
with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice
and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the
nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged
nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly
and exclaimed: "Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where
all others' rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong."
The Thief and His Mother
A BOY stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took
it home to his Mother. She not only abstained from beating him,
but encouraged him. He next time stole a cloak and brought it to
her, and she again commended him. The Youth, advanced to
adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value. At
last he was caught in the very act, and having his hands bound
behind him, was led away to the place of public execution. His
Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in
sorrow, whereupon the young man said, "I wish to say something to
my Mother in her ear." She came close to him, and he quickly
seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off. The Mother
upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, "Ah! if
you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that
lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus
led to a disgraceful death."
The Old Man and Death
AN OLD MAN was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in
carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very
wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and
throwing down his load, besought "Death" to come. "Death"
immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what
reason he had called him. The Old Man hurriedly replied, "That,
lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders."
The Fir-Tree and the Bramble
A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, "You are useful for
nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses."
The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call
to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you
would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a
Fir-Tree."
Better poverty without care, than riches with.
The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk
A MOUSE who always lived on the land, by an unlucky chance formed
an intimate acquaintance with a Frog, who lived for the most part
in the water. The Frog, one day intent on mischief, bound the
foot of the Mouse tightly to his own. Thus joined together, the
Frog first of all led his friend the Mouse to the meadow where
they were accustomed to find their food. After this, he
gradually led him towards the pool in which he lived, until
reaching the very brink, he suddenly jumped in, dragging the
Mouse with him. The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam
croaking about, as if he had done a good deed. The unhappy Mouse
was soon suffocated by the water, and his dead body floated about
on the surface, tied to the foot of the Frog. A Hawk observed
it, and, pouncing upon it with his talons, carried it aloft. The
Frog, being still fastened to the leg of the Mouse, was also
carried off a prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk.
Harm hatch, harm catch.
The Man Bitten by a Dog
A MAN who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone
who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he
wanted, said, "If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and
dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the
Dog that bit you." The Man who had been bitten laughed at this
advice and said, "Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I
should beg every Dog in the town to bite me."
Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of
injuring you.
The Two Pots
A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of
earthenware and the other of brass. The Earthen Pot said to the
Brass Pot, "Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for
if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces,
and besides, I by no means wish to come near you."
Equals make the best friends.
The Wolf and the Sheep
A WOLF, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in
his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was
passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing
close beside him. "For," he said, "if you will bring me drink, I
will find means to provide myself with meat." "Yes," said the
Sheep, "if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless
make me provide the meat also."
Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.
The Aethiop
THE PURCHASER of a black servant was persuaded that the color of
his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his
former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means
of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The
servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or
complexion.
What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.
The Fisherman and His Nets
A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast
and captured a great haul of fish. He managed by a skillful
handling of his net to retain all the large fish and to draw them
to the shore; but he could not prevent the smaller fish from
falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.
The Huntsman and the Fisherman
A HUNTSMAN, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by
chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden
with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner
experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag.
They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day's sport.
Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some
time the same exchange day after day. Finally a neighbor said to
them, "If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by
frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again
wish to retain the fruits of his own sport."
Abstain and enjoy.
The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar
AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of
prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its
former contents. She greedily placed it several times to her
nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, "O most
delicious! How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it
leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a
perfume!"
The memory of a good deed lives.
The Fox and the Crow
A CROW having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it
in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat
himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is the
Crow," he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the
fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to
her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of
Birds!" This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute
the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped
the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the
Crow: "My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is
wanting."
The Two Dogs
A MAN had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports,
and a Housedog, taught to watch the house. When he returned home
after a good day's sport, he always gave the Housedog a large
share of his spoil. The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this,
reproached his companion, saying, "It is very hard to have all
this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate
on the fruits of my exertions." The Housedog replied, "Do not
blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not
taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of
others."
Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
The Stag in the Ox-Stall
A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the
danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid
himself in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly
warning: "O unhappy creature! why should you thus, of your own
accord, incur destruction and trust yourself in the house of your
enemy?' The Stag replied: "Only allow me, friend, to stay where I
am, and I will undertake to find some favorable opportunity of
effecting my escape." At the approach of the evening the herdsman
came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the
farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and
failed to notice him. The Stag, congratulating himself on his
safety, began to express his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had
kindly helped him in the hour of need. One of them again
answered him: "We indeed wish you well, but the danger is not
over. There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has
as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your
life is still in peril." At that moment the master himself
entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been
properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: "Why is
there such a scarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw
for them to lie on. Those lazy fellows have not even swept the
cobwebs away." While he thus examined everything in turn, he
spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the
straw. Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag
should be seized and killed.
The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons
THE PIGEONS, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon
the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had
admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc
and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could
pounce upon in a whole year.
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
The Widow and the Sheep
A CERTAIN poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time,
wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him
herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece
she sheared the flesh. The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, "Why
do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the
wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill
me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is
the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me."
The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
The Wild Ass and the Lion
A WILD ASS and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might
capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease. The Lion
agreed to assist the Wild Ass with his strength, while the Wild
Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed. When they
had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion
undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it
into three shares. "I will take the first share," he said,
"because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you
in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source
of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and
set off as fast as you can."
Might makes right.
The Eagle and the Arrow
AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare
whom he sought to make his prey. An archer, who saw the Eagle
from a place of concealment, took an accurate aim and wounded him
mortally. The Eagle gave one look at the arrow that had entered
his heart and saw in that single glance that its feathers had
been furnished by himself. "It is a double grief to me," he
exclaimed, "that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my
own wings."
The Sick Kite
A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother! do not
mourn, but at once invoke the gods that my life may be
prolonged." She replied, "Alas! my son, which of the gods do you
think will pity you? Is there one whom you have not outraged by
filching from their very altars a part of the sacrifice offered
up to them?'
We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in
adversity.
The Lion and the Dolphin
A LION roaming by the seashore saw a Dolphin lift up its head out
of the waves, and suggested that they contract an alliance,
saying that of all the animals they ought to be the best friends,
since the one was the king of beasts on the earth, and the other
was the sovereign ruler of all the inhabitants of the ocean. The
Dolphin gladly consented to this request. Not long afterwards
the Lion had a combat with a wild bull, and called on the Dolphin
to help him. The Dolphin, though quite willing to give him
assistance, was unable to do so, as he could not by any means
reach the land. The Lion abused him as a traitor. The Dolphin
replied, "Nay, my friend, blame not me, but Nature, which, while
giving me the sovereignty of the sea, has quite denied me the
power of living upon the land."
The Lion and the Boar
ON A SUMMER DAY, when the great heat induced a general thirst
among the beasts, a Lion and a Boar came at the same moment to a
small well to drink. They fiercely disputed which of them should
drink first, and were soon engaged in the agonies of a mortal
combat. When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a
fiercer renewal of the fight, they saw some Vultures waiting in
the distance to feast on the one that should fall first. They at
once made up their quarrel, saying, "It is better for us to make
friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures."
The One-Eyed Doe
A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the
edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing
her greater safety. She turned her sound eye towards the land
that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter
or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she
entertained no anticipation of danger. Some boatmen sailing by
saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her.
Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: "O
wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the
land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come
for safety, so much more perilous."
The Shepherd and the Sea
A SHEPHERD, keeping watch over his sheep near the shore, saw the
Sea very calm and smooth, and longed to make a voyage with a view
to commerce. He sold all his flock, invested it in a cargo of
dates, and set sail. But a very great tempest came on, and the
ship being in danger of sinking, he threw all his merchandise
overboard, and barely escaped with his life in the empty ship.
Not long afterwards when someone passed by and observed the
unruffled calm of the Sea, he interrupted him and said, "It is
again in want of dates, and therefore looks quiet."
The Ass, the Cock, and the Lion
AN ASS and a Cock were in a straw-yard together when a Lion,
desperate from hunger, approached the spot. He was about to
spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to the sound of whose voice
the Lion, it is said, has a singular aversion) crowed loudly, and
the Lion fled away as fast as he could. The Ass, observing his
trepidation at the mere crowing of a Cock summoned courage to
attack him, and galloped after him for that purpose. He had run
no long distance, when the Lion, turning about, seized him and
tore him to pieces.
False confidence often leads into danger.
The Mice and the Weasels
THE WEASELS and the Mice waged a perpetual war with each other,
in which much blood was shed. The Weasels were always the
victors. The Mice thought that the cause of their frequent
defeats was that they had no leaders set apart from the general
army to command them, and that they were exposed to dangers from
lack of discipline. They therefore chose as leaders Mice that
were most renowned for their family descent, strength, and
counsel, as well as those most noted for their courage in the
fight, so that they might be better marshaled in battle array and
formed into troops, regiments, and battalions. When all this was
done, and the army disciplined, and the herald Mouse had duly
proclaimed war by challenging the Weasels, the newly chosen
generals bound their heads with straws, that they might be more
conspicuous to all their troops. Scarcely had the battle begun,
when a great rout overwhelmed the Mice, who scampered off as fast
as they could to their holes. The generals, not being able to
get in on account of the ornaments on their heads, were all
captured and eaten by the Weasels.
The more honor the more danger.
The Mice in Council
THE MICE summoned a council to decide how they might best devise
means of warning themselves of the approach of their great enemy
the Cat. Among the many plans suggested, the one that found most
favor was the proposal to tie a bell to the neck of the Cat, so
that the Mice, being warned by the sound of the tinkling, might
run away and hide themselves in their holes at his approach. But
when the Mice further debated who among them should thus "bell
the Cat," there was no one found to do it.
The Wolf and the Housedog
A WOLF, meeting a big well-fed Mastiff with a wooden collar about
his neck asked him who it was that fed him so well and yet
compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went.
"The master," he replied. Then said the Wolf: "May no friend of
mine ever be in such a plight; for the weight of this chain is
enough to spoil the appetite."
The Rivers and the Sea
THE RIVERS joined together to complain to the Sea, saying, "Why
is it that when we flow into your tides so potable and sweet, you
work in us such a change, and make us salty and unfit to drink?"
The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him,
said, "Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made
briny."
The Playful Ass
AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about
there, broke in the tiling. The owner went up after him and
quickly drove him down, beating him severely with a thick wooden
cudgel. The Ass said, "Why, I saw the Monkey do this very thing
yesterday, and you all laughed heartily, as if it afforded you
very great amusement."
The Three Tradesmen
A GREAT CITY was besieged, and its inhabitants were called
together to consider the best means of protecting it from the
enemy. A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording
the best material for an effective resistance. A Carpenter, with
equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of
defense. Upon which a Currier stood up and said, "Sirs, I differ
from you altogether: there is no material for resistance equal to
a covering of hides; and nothing so good as leather."
Every man for himself.
The Master and His Dogs
A CERTAIN MAN, detained by a storm in his country house, first of
all killed his sheep, and then his goats, for the maintenance of
his household. The storm still continuing, he was obliged to
slaughter his yoke oxen for food. On seeing this, his Dogs took
counsel together, and said, "It is time for us to be off, for if
the master spare not his oxen, who work for his gain, how can we
expect him to spare us?'
He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family.
The Wolf and the Shepherds
A WOLF, passing by, saw some Shepherds in a hut eating a haunch
of mutton for their dinner. Approaching them, he said, "What a
clamor you would raise if I were to do as you are doing!"
The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat
THE DOLPHINS and Whales waged a fierce war with each other. When
the battle was at its height, a Sprat lifted its head out of the
waves and said that he would reconcile their differences if they
would accept him as an umpire. One of the Dolphins replied, "We
would far rather be destroyed in our battle with each other than
admit any interference from you in our affairs."
The Ass Carrying the Image
AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden
Image, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along,
the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass,
thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect for
himself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refused
to move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his
whip lustily about his shoulders and said, "O you perverse
dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an
Ass."
They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to
others.
The Two Travelers and the Axe
TWO MEN were journeying together. One of them picked up an axe
that lay upon the path, and said, "I have found an axe." "Nay, my
friend," replied the other, "do not say 'I,' but 'We' have found
an axe." They had not gone far before they saw the owner of the
axe pursuing them, and he who had picked up the axe said, "We are
undone." "Nay," replied the other, "keep to your first mode of
speech, my friend; what you thought right then, think right now.
Say 'I,' not 'We' are undone."
He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.
The Old Lion
A LION, worn out with years and powerless from disease, lay on
the ground at the point of death. A Boar rushed upon him, and
avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury.
Shortly afterwards the Bull with his horns gored him as if he
were an enemy. When the Ass saw that the huge beast could be
assailed with impunity, he let drive at his forehead with his
heels. The expiring Lion said, "I have reluctantly brooked the
insults of the brave, but to be compelled to endure such
treatment from thee, a disgrace to Nature, is indeed to die a
double death."
The Old Hound
A HOUND, who in the days of his youth and strength had never
yielded to any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age a
boar in the chase. He seized him boldly by the ear, but could
not retain his hold because of the decay of his teeth, so that
the boar escaped. His master, quickly coming up, was very much
disappointed, and fiercely abused the dog. The Hound looked up
and said, "It was not my fault. master: my spirit was as good as
ever, but I could not help my infirmities. I rather deserve to
be praised for what I have been, than to be blamed for what I
am."
The Bee and Jupiter
A BEE from Mount Hymettus, the queen of the hive, ascended to
Olympus to present Jupiter some honey fresh from her combs.
Jupiter, delighted with the offering of honey, promised to give
whatever she should ask. She therefore besought him, saying,
"Give me, I pray thee, a sting, that if any mortal shall approach
to take my honey, I may kill him." Jupiter was much displeased,
for he loved the race of man, but could not refuse the request
because of his promise. He thus answered the Bee: "You shall
have your request, but it will be at the peril of your own life.
For if you use your sting, it shall remain in the wound you make,
and then you will die from the loss of it."
Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.
The Milk-Woman and Her Pail
A FARMER'S daughter was carrying her Pail of milk from the field
to the farmhouse, when she fell a-musing. "The money for which
this milk will be sold, will buy at least three hundred eggs.
The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two hundred and
fifty chickens. The chickens will become ready for the market
when poultry will fetch the highest price, so that by the end of
the year I shall have money enough from my share to buy a new
gown. In this dress I will go to the Christmas parties, where
all the young fellows will propose to me, but I will toss my head
and refuse them every one." At this moment she tossed her head in
unison with her thoughts, when down fell the milk pail to the
ground, and all her imaginary schemes perished in a moment.
The Seaside Travelers
SOME TRAVELERS, journeying along the seashore, climbed to the
summit of a tall cliff, and looking over the sea, saw in the
distance what they thought was a large ship. They waited in the
hope of seeing it enter the harbor, but as the object on which
they looked was driven nearer to shore by the wind, they found
that it could at the most be a small boat, and not a ship. When
however it reached the beach, they discovered that it was only a
large faggot of sticks, and one of them said to his companions,
"We have waited for no purpose, for after all there is nothing to
see but a load of wood."
Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
The Brazier and His Dog
A BRAZIER had a little Dog, which was a great favorite with his
master, and his constant companion. While he hammered away at
his metals the Dog slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to
dinner and began to eat, the Dog woke up and wagged his tail, as
if he would ask for a share of his meal. His master one day,
pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, "You
wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to you? While I am
hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to
eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food. Do
you not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that
none but those who work are entitled to eat?'
The Ass and His Shadow
A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. The
day being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the
Traveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under
the Shadow of the Ass. As this afforded only protection for one,
and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, a
violent dispute arose between them as to which of them had the
right to the Shadow. The owner maintained that he had let the
Ass only, and not his Shadow. The Traveler asserted that he had,
with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrel
proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Ass
galloped off.
In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
The Ass and His Masters
AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food
and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from
his present service and provided with another master. Jupiter,
after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him to
be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he had
heavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, he
petitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, telling him
that it would be the last time that he could grant his request,
ordained that he be sold to a tanner. The Ass found that he had
fallen into worse hands, and noting his master's occupation,
said, groaning: "It would have been better for me to have been
either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the
other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my
present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and
make me useful to him."
The Oak and the Reeds
A VERY LARGE OAK was uprooted by the wind and thrown across a
stream. It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: "I
wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely
crushed by these strong winds." They replied, "You fight and
contend with the wind, and consequently you are destroyed; while
we on the contrary bend before the least breath of air, and
therefore remain unbroken, and escape."
Stoop to conquer.
The Fisherman and the Little Fish
A FISHERMAN who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught
a single small Fish as the result of his day's labor. The Fish,
panting convulsively, thus entreated for his life: "O Sir, what
good can I be to you, and how little am I worth? I am not yet
come to my full size. Pray spare my life, and put me back into
the sea. I shall soon become a large fish fit for the tables of
the rich, and then you can catch me again, and make a handsome
profit of me." The Fisherman replied, "I should indeed be a very
simple fellow if, for the chance of a greater uncertain profit, I
were to forego my present certain gain."
The Hunter and the Woodman
A HUNTER, not very bold, was searching for the tracks of a Lion.
He asked a man felling oaks in the forest if he had seen any
marks of his footsteps or knew where his lair was. "I will,"
said the man, "at once show you the Lion himself." The Hunter,
turning very pale and chattering with his teeth from fear,
replied, "No, thank you. I did not ask that; it is his track
only I am in search of, not the Lion himself."
The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
The Wild Boar and the Fox
A WILD BOAR stood under a tree and rubbed his tusks against the
trunk. A Fox passing by asked him why he thus sharpened his
teeth when there was no danger threatening from either huntsman
or hound. He replied, "I do it advisedly; for it would never do
to have to sharpen my weapons just at the time I ought to be
using them."
The Lion in a Farmyard
A LION entered a farmyard. The Farmer, wishing to catch him,
shut the gate. When the Lion found that he could not escape, he
flew upon the sheep and killed them, and then attacked the oxen.
The Farmer, beginning to be alarmed for his own safety, opened
the gate and released the Lion. On his departure the Farmer
grievously lamented the destruction of his sheep and oxen, but
his wife, who had been a spectator to all that took place, said,
"On my word, you are rightly served, for how could you for a
moment think of shutting up a Lion along with you in your
farmyard when you know that you shake in your shoes if you only
hear his roar at a distance?'
Mercury and the Sculptor
MERCURY ONCE DETERMINED to learn in what esteem he was held among
mortals. For this purpose he assumed the character of a man and
visited in this disguise a Sculptor's studio having looked at
various statues, he demanded the price of two figures of Jupiter
and Juno. When the sum at which they were valued was named, he
pointed to a figure of himself, saying to the Sculptor, "You will
certainly want much more for this, as it is the statue of the
Messenger of the Gods, and author of all your gain." The
Sculptor replied, "Well, if you will buy these, I'll fling you
that into the bargain."
The Swan and the Goose
A CERTAIN rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan. He
fed the one for his table and kept the other for the sake of its
song. When the time came for killing the Goose, the cook went to
get him at night, when it was dark, and he was not able to
distinguish one bird from the other. By mistake he caught the
Swan instead of the Goose. The Swan, threatened with death,
burst forth into song and thus made himself known by his voice,
and preserved his life by his melody.
The Swollen Fox
A VERY HUNGRY FOX, seeing some bread and meat left by shepherds
in the hollow of an oak, crept into the hole and made a hearty
meal. When he finished, he was so full that he was not able to
get out, and began to groan and lament his fate. Another Fox
passing by heard his cries, and coming up, inquired the cause of
his complaining. On learning what had happened, he said to him,
"Ah, you will have to remain there, my friend, until you become
such as you were when you crept in, and then you will easily get
out."
The Fox and the Woodcutter
A FOX, running before the hounds, came across a Woodcutter
felling an oak and begged him to show him a safe hiding-place.
The Woodcutter advised him to take shelter in his own hut, so the
Fox crept in and hid himself in a corner. The huntsman soon came
up with his hounds and inquired of the Woodcutter if he had seen
the Fox. He declared that he had not seen him, and yet pointed,
all the time he was speaking, to the hut where the Fox lay
hidden. The huntsman took no notice of the signs, but believing
his word, hastened forward in the chase. As soon as they were
well away, the Fox departed without taking any notice of the
Woodcutter: whereon he called to him and reproached him, saying,
"You ungrateful fellow, you owe your life to me, and yet you
leave me without a word of thanks." The Fox replied, "Indeed, I
should have thanked you fervently if your deeds had been as good
as your words, and if your hands had not been traitors to your
speech."
The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock
A BIRDCATCHER was about to sit down to a dinner of herbs when a
friend unexpectedly came in. The bird-trap was quite empty, as
he had caught nothing, and he had to kill a pied Partridge, which
he had tamed for a decoy. The bird entreated earnestly for his
life: "What would you do without me when next you spread your
nets? Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of
answering birds?' The Birdcatcher spared his life, and determined
to pick out a fine young Cock just attaining to his comb. But
the Cock expostulated in piteous tones from his perch: "If you
kill me, who will announce to you the appearance of the dawn?
Who will wake you to your daily tasks or tell you when it is time
to visit the bird-trap in the morning?' He replied, "What you say
is true. You are a capital bird at telling the time of day. But
my friend and I must have our dinners."
Necessity knows no law.
The Monkey and the Fishermen
A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting
their nets into a river, and narrowly watched their proceedings.
The Fishermen after a while gave up fishing, and on going home to
dinner left their nets upon the bank. The Monkey, who is the
most imitative of animals, descended from the treetop and
endeavored to do as they had done. Having handled the net, he
threw it into the river, but became tangled in the meshes and
drowned. With his last breath he said to himself, "I am rightly
served; for what business had I who had never handled a net to
try and catch fish?'
The Flea and the Wrestler
A FLEA settled upon the bare foot of a Wrestler and bit him,
causing the man to call loudly upon Hercules for help. When the
Flea a second time hopped upon his foot, he groaned and said, "O
Hercules! if you will not help me against a Flea, how can I hope
for your assistance against greater antagonists?'
The Two Frogs
TWO FROGS dwelt in the same pool. When the pool dried up under
the summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another
home. As they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply
supplied with water, and when they saw it, one of the Frogs said
to the other, "Let us descend and make our abode in this well: it
will furnish us with shelter and food." The other replied with
greater caution, "But suppose the water should fail us. How can
we get out again from so great a depth?'
Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.
The Cat and the Mice
A CERTAIN HOUSE was overrun with Mice. A Cat, discovering this,
made her way into it and began to catch and eat them one by one.
Fearing for their lives, the Mice kept themselves close in their
holes. The Cat was no longer able to get at them and perceived
that she must tempt them forth by some device. For this purpose
she jumped upon a peg, and suspending herself from it, pretended
to be dead. One of the Mice, peeping stealthily out, saw her and
said, "Ah, my good madam, even though you should turn into a
meal-bag, we will not come near you."
The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox
A LION and a Bear seized a Kid at the same moment, and fought
fiercely for its possession. When they had fearfully lacerated
each other and were faint from the long combat, they lay down
exhausted with fatigue. A Fox, who had gone round them at a
distance several times, saw them both stretched on the ground
with the Kid lying untouched in the middle. He ran in between
them, and seizing the Kid scampered off as fast as he could. The
Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get up, said,
"Woe be to us, that we should have fought and belabored ourselves
only to serve the turn of a Fox."
It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another
all the profit.
The Doe and the Lion
A DOE hard pressed by hunters sought refuge in a cave belonging
to a Lion. The Lion concealed himself on seeing her approach,
but when she was safe within the cave, sprang upon her and tore
her to pieces. "Woe is me," exclaimed the Doe, "who have escaped
from man, only to throw myself into the mouth of a wild beast?'
In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into
another.
The Farmer and the Fox
A FARMER, who bore a grudge against a Fox for robbing his poultry
yard, caught him at last, and being determined to take an ample
revenge, tied some rope well soaked in oil to his tail, and set
it on fire. The Fox by a strange fatality rushed to the fields
of the Farmer who had captured him. It was the time of the wheat
harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned
home grieving sorely.
The Seagull and the Kite
A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep
gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die. A Kite saw him and
exclaimed: "You richly deserve your fate; for a bird of the air
has no business to seek its food from the sea."
Every man should be content to mind his own business.
The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury
A PHILOSOPHER witnessed from the shore the shipwreck of a vessel,
of which the crew and passengers were all drowned. He inveighed
against the injustice of Providence, which would for the sake of
one criminal perchance sailing in the ship allow so many innocent
persons to perish. As he was indulging in these reflections, he
found himself surrounded by a whole army of Ants, near whose nest
he was standing. One of them climbed up and stung him, and he
immediately trampled them all to death with his foot. Mercury
presented himself, and striking the Philosopher with his wand,
said, "And are you indeed to make yourself a judge of the
dealings of Providence, who hast thyself in a similar manner
treated these poor Ants?'
The Mouse and the Bull
A BULL was bitten by a Mouse and, angered by the wound, tried to
capture him. But the Mouse reached his hole in safety. Though
the Bull dug into the walls with his horns, he tired before he
could rout out the Mouse, and crouching down, went to sleep
outside the hole. The Mouse peeped out, crept furtively up his
flank, and again biting him, retreated to his hole. The Bull
rising up, and not knowing what to do, was sadly perplexed. At
which the Mouse said, "The great do not always prevail. There
are times when the small and lowly are the strongest to do
mischief."
The Lion and the Hare
A LION came across a Hare, who was fast asleep. He was just in
the act of seizing her, when a fine young Hart trotted by, and he
left the Hare to follow him. The Hare, scared by the noise,
awoke and scudded away. The Lion was unable after a long chase
to catch the Hart, and returned to feed upon the Hare. On
finding that the Hare also had run off, he said, "I am rightly
served, for having let go of the food that I had in my hand for
the chance of obtaining more."
The Peasant and the Eagle
A PEASANT found an Eagle captured in a trap, and much admiring
the bird, set him free. The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to
his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which
was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a
bundle from his head. When the Peasant rose in pursuit, the
Eagle let the bundle fall again. Taking it up, the man returned
to the same place, to find that the wall under which he had been
sitting had fallen to pieces; and he marveled at the service
rendered him by the Eagle.
The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter
A VERY POOR MAN, a Carpenter by trade, had a wooden image of
Mercury, before which he made offerings day by day, and begged
the idol to make him rich, but in spite of his entreaties he
became poorer and poorer. At last, being very angry, he took his
image down from its pedestal and dashed it against the wall.
When its head was knocked off, out came a stream of gold, which
the Carpenter quickly picked up and said, "Well, I think thou art
altogether contradictory and unreasonable; for when I paid you
honor, I reaped no benefits: but now that I maltreat you I am
loaded with an abundance of riches."
The Bull and the Goat
A BULL, escaping from a Lion, hid in a cave which some shepherds
had recently occupied. As soon as he entered, a He-Goat left in
the cave sharply attacked him with his horns. The Bull quietly
addressed him: "Butt away as much as you will. I have no fear of
you, but of the Lion. Let that monster go away and I will soon
let you know what is the respective strength of a Goat and a
Bull."
It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in
distress.
The Dancing Monkeys
A PRINCE had some Monkeys trained to dance. Being naturally
great mimics of men's actions, they showed themselves most apt
pupils, and when arrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they
danced as well as any of the courtiers. The spectacle was often
repeated with great applause, till on one occasion a courtier,
bent on mischief, took from his pocket a handful of nuts and
threw them upon the stage. The Monkeys at the sight of the nuts
forgot their dancing and became (as indeed they were) Monkeys
instead of actors. Pulling off their masks and tearing their
robes, they fought with one another for the nuts. The dancing
spectacle thus came to an end amidst the laughter and ridicule of
the audience.
The Fox and the Leopard
THE FOX and the Leopard disputed which was the more beautiful of
the two. The Leopard exhibited one by one the various spots
which decorated his skin. But the Fox, interrupting him, said,
"And how much more beautiful than you am I, who am decorated, not
in body, but in mind."
The Monkeys and Their Mother
THE MONKEY, it is said, has two young ones at each birth. The
Mother fondles one and nurtures it with the greatest affection
and care, but hates and neglects the other. It happened once
that the young one which was caressed and loved was smothered by
the too great affection of the Mother, while the despised one was
nurtured and reared in spite of the neglect to which it was
exposed.
The best intentions will not always ensure success.
The Oaks and Jupiter
THE OAKS presented a complaint to Jupiter, saying, "We bear for
no purpose the burden of life, as of all the trees that grow we
are the most continually in peril of the axe." Jupiter made
answer: "You have only to thank yourselves for the misfortunes to
which you are exposed: for if you did not make such excellent
pillars and posts, and prove yourselves so serviceable to the
carpenters and the farmers, the axe would not so frequently be
laid to your roots."
The Hare and the Hound
A HOUND started a Hare from his lair, but after a long run, gave
up the chase. A goat-herd seeing him stop, mocked him, saying
"The little one is the best runner of the two." The Hound
replied, "You do not see the difference between us: I was only
running for a dinner, but he for his life."
The Traveler and Fortune
A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with
fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well. Just as he was about
to fall into the water, Dame Fortune, it is said, appeared to him
and waking him from his slumber thus addressed him: "Good Sir,
pray wake up: for if you fall into the well, the blame will be
thrown on me, and I shall get an ill name among mortals; for I
find that men are sure to impute their calamities to me, however
much by their own folly they have really brought them on
themselves."
Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.
The Bald Knight
A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. A sudden puff
of wind blew off his hat and wig, at which a loud laugh rang
forth from his companions. He pulled up his horse, and with
great glee joined in the joke by saying, "What a marvel it is
that hairs which are not mine should fly from me, when they have
forsaken even the man on whose head they grew."
The Shepherd and the Dog
A SHEPHERD penning his sheep in the fold for the night was about
to shut up a wolf with them, when his Dog perceiving the wolf
said, "Master, how can you expect the sheep to be safe if you
admit a wolf into the fold?'
The Lamp
A LAMP, soaked with too much oil and flaring brightly, boasted
that it gave more light than the sun. Then a sudden puff of wind
arose, and the Lamp was immediately extinguished. Its owner lit
it again, and said: "Boast no more, but henceforth be content to
give thy light in silence. Know that not even the stars need to
be relit"
The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass
THE LION, the Fox and the Ass entered into an agreement to assist
each other in the chase. Having secured a large booty, the Lion
on their return from the forest asked the Ass to allot his due
portion to each of the three partners in the treaty. The Ass
carefully divided the spoil into three equal shares and modestly
requested the two others to make the first choice. The Lion,
bursting out into a great rage, devoured the Ass. Then he
requested the Fox to do him the favor to make a division. The
Fox accumulated all that they had killed into one large heap and
left to himself the smallest possible morsel. The Lion said,
"Who has taught you, my very excellent fellow, the art of
division? You are perfect to a fraction." He replied, "I learned
it from the Ass, by witnessing his fate."
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
The Bull, the Lioness, and the Wild-Boar Hunter
A BULL finding a lion's cub asleep gored him to death with his
horns. The Lioness came up, and bitterly lamented the death of
her whelp. A wild-boar Hunter, seeing her distress, stood at a
distance and said to her, "Think how many men there are who have
reason to lament the loss of their children, whose deaths have
been caused by you."
The Oak and the Woodcutters
THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces,
making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk. The
Oak said with a sigh, "I do not care about the blows of the axe
aimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces by
these wedges made from my own branches."
Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.
The Hen and the Golden Eggs
A COTTAGER and his wife had a Hen that laid a golden egg every
day. They supposed that the Hen must contain a great lump of
gold in its inside, and in order to get the gold they killed it.
Having done so, they found to their surprise that the Hen
differed in no respect from their other hens. The foolish pair,
thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of
the gain of which they were assured day by day.
The Ass and the Frogs
AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As he
was crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled and
fell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groaned
heavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation,
and said, "What would you do if you had to live here always as we
do, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water?"
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do
large misfortunes.
The Crow and the Raven
A CROW was jealous of the Raven, because he was considered a bird
of good omen and always attracted the attention of men, who noted
by his flight the good or evil course of future events. Seeing
some travelers approaching, the Crow flew up into a tree, and
perching herself on one of the branches, cawed as loudly as she
could. The travelers turned towards the sound and wondered what
it foreboded, when one of them said to his companion, "Let us
proceed on our journey, my friend, for it is only the caw of a
crow, and her cry, you know, is no omen."
Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only
make themselves ridiculous.
The Trees and the Axe
A MAN came into a forest and asked the Trees to provide him a
handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request and gave
him a young ash-tree. No sooner had the man fitted a new handle
to his axe from it, than he began to use it and quickly felled
with his strokes the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak,
lamenting when too late the destruction of his companions, said
to a neighboring cedar, "The first step has lost us all. If we
had not given up the rights of the ash, we might yet have
retained our own privileges and have stood for ages."
The Crab and the Fox
A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow
as its feeding ground. A Fox came across him, and being very
hungry ate him up. Just as he was on the point of being eaten,
the Crab said, "I well deserve my fate, for what business had I
on the land, when by my nature and habits I am only adapted for
the sea?'
Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.
The Woman and Her Hen
A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She
often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of
one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen
a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat
and sleek, and never once laid another egg.
The Ass and the Old Shepherd
A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed all
of a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass to
fly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animal
lazily replied, "Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely the
conqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' "No," rejoined
the Shepherd. "Then," said the Ass, "as long as I carry the
panniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?'
In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name
of their master.
The Kites and the Swans
TEE KITES of olden times, as well as the Swans, had the privilege
of song. But having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so
enchanted with the sound, that they tried to imitate it; and, in
trying to neigh, they forgot how to sing.
The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of
present blessings.
The Wolves and the Sheepdogs
THE WOLVES thus addressed the Sheepdogs: "Why should you, who are
like us in so many things, not be entirely of one mind with us,
and live with us as brothers should? We differ from you in one
point only. We live in freedom, but you bow down to and slave
for men, who in return for your services flog you with whips and
put collars on your necks. They make you also guard their sheep,
and while they eat the mutton throw only the bones to you. If
you will be persuaded by us, you will give us the sheep, and we
will enjoy them in common, till we all are surfeited." The Dogs
listened favorably to these proposals, and, entering the den of
the Wolves, they were set upon and torn to pieces.
The Hares and the Foxes
THE HARES waged war with the Eagles, and called upon the Foxes to
help them. They replied, "We would willingly have helped you, if
we had not known who you were, and with whom you were fighting."
Count the cost before you commit yourselves.
The Bowman and Lion
A VERY SKILLFUL BOWMAN went to the mountains in search of game,
but all the beasts of the forest fled at his approach. The Lion
alone challenged him to combat. The Bowman immediately shot out
an arrow and said to the Lion: "I send thee my messenger, that
from him thou mayest learn what I myself shall be when I assail
thee." The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox
who had seen it all happen told him to be of good courage and not
to back off at the first attack he replied: "You counsel me in
vain; for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide
the attack of the man himself?'
Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance.
The Camel
WHEN MAN first saw the Camel, he was so frightened at his vast
size that he ran away. After a time, perceiving the meekness and
gentleness of the beast's temper, he summoned courage enough to
approach him. Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal
altogether deficient in spirit, he assumed such boldness as to
put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.
Use serves to overcome dread.
The Wasp and the Snake
A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him
unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death. The Snake,
being in great torment and not knowing how to rid himself of his
enemy, saw a wagon heavily laden with wood, and went and
purposely placed his head under the wheels, saying, "At least my
enemy and I shall perish together."
The Dog and the Hare
A HOUND having started a Hare on the hillside pursued her for
some distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he
would take her life, and at another fawning upon her, as if in
play with another dog. The Hare said to him, "I wish you would
act sincerely by me, and show yourself in your true colors. If
you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do
you fawn on me?'
No one can be a friend if you know not whether to trust or
distrust him.
The Bull and the Calf
A BULL was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through
a narrow passage which led to his stall. A young Calf came up,
and offered to go before and show him the way by which he could
manage to pass. "Save yourself the trouble," said the Bull; "I
knew that way long before you were born."
The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep
A STAG asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said
that the Wolf would be his surety. The Sheep, fearing some fraud
was intended, excused herself, saying, "The Wolf is accustomed to
seize what he wants and to run off; and you, too, can quickly
outstrip me in your rapid flight. How then shall I be able to
find you, when the day of payment comes?'
Two blacks do not make one white.
The Peacock and the Crane
A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed
by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, "I am
robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the
rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings."
"True," replied the Crane; "but I soar to the heights of heaven
and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a
cock, among the birds of the dunghill."
Fine feathers don't make fine birds.
The Fox and the Hedgehog
A FOX swimming across a rapid river was carried by the force of
the current into a very deep ravine, where he lay for a long time
very much bruised, sick, and unable to move. A swarm of hungry
blood-sucking flies settled upon him. A Hedgehog, passing by,
saw his anguish and inquired if he should drive away the flies
that were tormenting him. "By no means," replied the Fox; "pray
do not molest them." "How is this?' said the Hedgehog; "do you
not want to be rid of them?' "No," returned the Fox, "for these
flies which you see are full of blood, and sting me but little,
and if you rid me of these which are already satiated, others
more hungry will come in their place, and will drink up all the
blood I have left."
The Eagle, the Cat, and the Wild Sow
AN EAGLE made her nest at the top of a lofty oak; a Cat, having
found a convenient hole, moved into the middle of the trunk; and
a Wild Sow, with her young, took shelter in a hollow at its foot.
The Cat cunningly resolved to destroy this chance-made colony.
To carry out her design, she climbed to the nest of the Eagle,
and said, "Destruction is preparing for you, and for me too,
unfortunately. The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the
earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our
families as food for her young." Having thus frightened the Eagle
out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and
said, "Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go
out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to
pounce upon one of your little pigs." Having instilled these
fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the
hollow of the tree. When night came she went forth with silent
foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens, but feigning
to be afraid, she kept a lookout all through the day. Meanwhile,
the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the branches,
and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out from
her cave. And thus they both, along with their families,
perished from hunger, and afforded ample provision for the Cat
and her kittens.
The Thief and the Innkeeper
A THIEF hired a room in a tavern and stayed a while in the hope
of stealing something which should enable him to pay his
reckoning. When he had waited some days in vain, he saw the
Innkeeper dressed in a new and handsome coat and sitting before
his door. The Thief sat down beside him and talked with him. As
the conversation began to flag, the Thief yawned terribly and at
the same time howled like a wolf. The Innkeeper said, "Why do
you howl so fearfully?' "I will tell you," said the Thief, "but
first let me ask you to hold my clothes, or I shall tear them to
pieces. I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor
whether these attacks of howling were inflicted on me as a
judgment for my crimes, or for any other cause; but this I do
know, that when I yawn for the third time, I actually turn into a
wolf and attack men." With this speech he commenced a second fit
of yawning and again howled like a wolf, as he had at first. The
Innkeeper. hearing his tale and believing what he said, became
greatly alarmed and, rising from his seat, attempted to run away.
The Thief laid hold of his coat and entreated him to stop,
saying, "Pray wait, sir, and hold my clothes, or I shall tear
them to pieces in my fury, when I turn into a wolf." At the same
moment he yawned the third time and set up a terrible howl. The
Innkeeper, frightened lest he should be attacked, left his new
coat in the Thief's hand and ran as fast as he could into the inn
for safety. The Thief made off with the coat and did not return
again to the inn.
Every tale is not to be believed.
The Mule
A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn,
galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself:
"My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own
child in speed and spirit." On the next day, being driven a long
journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate
tone: "I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could
have been only an ass."
The Hart and the Vine
A HART, hard pressed in the chase, hid himself beneath the large
leaves of a Vine. The huntsmen, in their haste, overshot the
place of his concealment. Supposing all danger to have passed,
the Hart began to nibble the tendrils of the Vine. One of the
huntsmen, attracted by the rustling of the leaves, looked back,
and seeing the Hart, shot an arrow from his bow and struck it.
The Hart, at the point of death, groaned: "I am rightly served,
for I should not have maltreated the Vine that saved me."
The Serpent and the Eagle
A SERPENT and an Eagle were struggling with each other in deadly
conflict. The Serpent had the advantage, and was about to
strangle the bird. A countryman saw them, and running up, loosed
the coil of the Serpent and let the Eagle go free. The Serpent,
irritated at the escape of his prey, injected his poison into the
drinking horn of the countryman. The rustic, ignorant of his
danger, was about to drink, when the Eagle struck his hand with
his wing, and, seizing the drinking horn in his talons, carried
it aloft.
The Crow and the Pitcher
A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find
water, flew to it with delight. When he reached it, he
discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he
could not possibly get at it. He tried everything he could think
of to reach the water, but all his efforts were in vain. At last
he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them
one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the
water within his reach and thus saved his life.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The Two Frogs
TWO FROGS were neighbors. One inhabited a deep pond, far removed
from public view; the other lived in a gully containing little
water, and traversed by a country road. The Frog that lived in
the pond warned his friend to change his residence and entreated
him to come and live with him, saying that he would enjoy greater
safety from danger and more abundant food. The other refused,
saying that he felt it so very hard to leave a place to which he
had become accustomed. A few days afterwards a heavy wagon
passed through the gully and crushed him to death under its
wheels.
A willful man will have his way to his own hurt.
The Wolf and the Fox
AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the
wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and
swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him "Lion."
The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size,
thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his
own race, consorted exclusively with the lions. An old sly Fox,
seeing this, said, "May I never make myself so ridiculous as you
do in your pride and self-conceit; for even though you have the
size of a lion among wolves, in a herd of lions you are
definitely a wolf."
The Walnut-Tree
A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of
fruit. For the sake of the nuts, the passers-by broke its
branches with stones and sticks. The Walnut-Tree piteously
exclaimed, "O wretched me! that those whom I cheer with my fruit
should repay me with these painful requitals!"
The Gnat and the Lion
A GNAT came and said to a Lion, "I do not in the least fear you,
nor are you stronger than I am. For in what does your strength
consist? You can scratch with your claws and bite with your teeth
an a woman in her quarrels. I repeat that I am altogether more
powerful than you; and if you doubt it, let us fight and see who
will conquer." The Gnat, having sounded his horn, fastened
himself upon the Lion and stung him on the nostrils and the parts
of the face devoid of hair. While trying to crush him, the Lion
tore himself with his claws, until he punished himself severely.
The Gnat thus prevailed over the Lion, and, buzzing about in a
song of triumph, flew away. But shortly afterwards he became
entangled in the meshes of a cobweb and was eaten by a spider.
He greatly lamented his fate, saying, "Woe is me! that I, who can
wage war successfully with the hugest beasts, should perish
myself from this spider, the most inconsiderable of insects!"
The Monkey and the Dolphin
A SAILOR, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse
him while on shipboard. As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a
violent tempest arose in which the ship was wrecked and he, his
Monkey, and all the crew were obliged to swim for their lives. A
Dolphin saw the Monkey contending with the waves, and supposing
him to be a man (whom he is always said to befriend), came and
placed himself under him, to convey him on his back in safety to
the shore. When the Dolphin arrived with his burden in sight of
land not far from Athens, he asked the Monkey if he were an
Athenian. The latter replied that he was, and that he was
descended from one of the most noble families in that city. The
Dolphin then inquired if he knew the Piraeus (the famous harbor
of Athens). Supposing that a man was meant, the Monkey answered
that he knew him very well and that he was an intimate friend.
The Dolphin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey
under the water and drowned him.
The Jackdaw and the Doves
A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with
food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share
their plentiful maintenance. The Doves, as long as he was
silent, supposed him to be one of themselves and admitted him to
their cote. But when one day he forgot himself and began to
chatter, they discovered his true character and drove him forth,
pecking him with their beaks. Failing to obtain food among the
Doves, he returned to the Jackdaws. They too, not recognizing
him on account of his color. expelled him from living with them.
So desiring two ends, he obtained neither.
The Horse and the Stag
AT ONE TIME the Horse had the plain entirely to himself. Then a
Stag intruded into his domain and shared his pasture. The Horse,
desiring to revenge himself on the stranger, asked a man if he
were willing to help him in punishing the Stag. The man replied
that if the Horse would receive a bit in his mouth and agree to
carry him, he would contrive effective weapons against the Stag.
The Horse consented and allowed the man to mount him. From that
hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the Stag, he
had enslaved himself to the service of man.
The Kid and the Wolf
A KID, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued
by a Wolf. Seeing he could not escape, he turned round, and
said: "I know, friend Wolf, that I must be your prey, but before
I die I would ask of you one favor you will play me a tune to
which I may dance." The Wolf complied, and while he was piping
and the Kid was dancing, some hounds hearing the sound ran up and
began chasing the Wolf. Turning to the Kid, he said, "It is just
what I deserve; for I, who am only a butcher, should not have
turned piper to please you."
The Prophet
A WIZARD, sitting in the marketplace, was telling the fortunes of
the passers-by when a person ran up in great haste, and
announced to him that the doors of his house had been broken open
and that all his goods were being stolen. He sighed heavily and
hastened away as fast as he could run. A neighbor saw him
running and said, "Oh! you fellow there! you say you can foretell
the fortunes of others; how is it you did not foresee your own?'
The Fox and the Monkey
A FOX and a Monkey were traveling together on the same road. As
they journeyed, they passed through a cemetery full of monuments.
"All these monuments which you see," said the Monkey, "are
erected in honor of my ancestors, who were in their day freedmen
and citizens of great renown." The Fox replied, "You have chosen
a most appropriate subject for your falsehoods, as I am sure none
of your ancestors will be able to contradict you."
A false tale often betrays itself.
The Thief and the Housedog
A THIEF came in the night to break into a house. He brought with
him several slices of meat in order to pacify the Housedog, so
that he would not alarm his master by barking. As the Thief
threw him the pieces of meat, the Dog said, "If you think to stop
my mouth, you will be greatly mistaken. This sudden kindness at
your hands will only make me more watchful, lest under these
unexpected favors to myself, you have some private ends to
accomplish for your own benefit, and for my master's injury."
The Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog
A HORSE, Ox, and Dog, driven to great straits by the cold, sought
shelter and protection from Man. He received them kindly,
lighted a fire, and warmed them. He let the Horse make free with
his oats, gave the Ox an abundance of hay, and fed the Dog with
meat from his own table. Grateful for these favors, the animals
determined to repay him to the best of their ability. For this
purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each
endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly
characterized himself. The Horse chose his earliest years and
gave them his own attributes: hence every man is in his youth
impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining his own
opinion. The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life,
and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to
labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources.
The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man
is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish,
tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and
to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his
necessities.
The Apes and the Two Travelers
TWO MEN, one who always spoke the truth and the other who told
nothing but lies, were traveling together and by chance came to
the land of Apes. One of the Apes, who had raised himself to be
king, commanded them to be seized and brought before him, that he
might know what was said of him among men. He ordered at the
same time that all the Apes be arranged in a long row on his
right hand and on his left, and that a throne be placed for him,
as was the custom among men. After these preparations he
signified that the two men should be brought before him, and
greeted them with this salutation: "What sort of a king do I seem
to you to be, O strangers?' The Lying Traveler replied, "You seem
to me a most mighty king." "And what is your estimate of those
you see around me?' "These," he made answer, "are worthy
companions of yourself, fit at least to be ambassadors and
leaders of armies." The Ape and all his court, gratified with the
lie, commanded that a handsome present be given to the flatterer.
On this the truthful Traveler thought to himself, "If so great a
reward be given for a lie, with what gift may not I be rewarded,
if, according to my custom, I tell the truth?' The Ape quickly
turned to him. "And pray how do I and these my friends around me
seem to you?' "Thou art," he said, "a most excellent Ape, and all
these thy companions after thy example are excellent Apes too."
The King of the Apes, enraged at hearing these truths, gave him
over to the teeth and claws of his companions.
The Wolf and the Shepherd
A WOLF followed a flock of sheep for a long time and did not
attempt to injure one of them. The Shepherd at first stood on
his guard against him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict
watch over his movements. But when the Wolf, day after day, kept
in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort
to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian
of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and
when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep
entirely in his charge. The Wolf, now that he had the
opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the greater part
of the flock. When the Shepherd returned to find his flock
destroyed, he exclaimed: "I have been rightly served; why did I
trust my sheep to a Wolf?'
The Hares and the Lions
THE HARES harangued the assembly, and argued that all should be
equal. The Lions made this reply: "Your words, O Hares! are
good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have."
The Lark and Her Young Ones
A LARK had made her nest in the early spring on the young green
wheat. The brood had almost grown to their full strength and
attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their
feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe
crop, said, "The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors
to help me with my harvest." One of the young Larks heard his
speech and related it to his mother, inquiring of her to what
place they should move for safety. "There is no occasion to move
yet, my son," she replied; "the man who only sends to his friends
to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest." The owner
of the field came again a few days later and saw the wheat
shedding the grain from excess of ripeness. He said, "I will
come myself tomorrow with my laborers, and with as many reapers
as I can hire, and will get in the harvest." The Lark on hearing
these words said to her brood, "It is time now to be off, my
little ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longer
trusts his friends, but will reap the field himself."
Self-help is the best help.
The Fox and the Lion
WHEN A FOX who had never yet seen a Lion, fell in with him by
chance for the first time in the forest, he was so frightened
that he nearly died with fear. On meeting him for the second
time, he was still much alarmed, but not to the same extent as at
first. On seeing him the third time, he so increased in boldness
that he went up to him and commenced a familiar conversation with
him.
Acquaintance softens prejudices.
The Weasel and the Mice
A WEASEL, inactive from age and infirmities, was not able to
catch mice as he once did. He therefore rolled himself in flour
and lay down in a dark corner. A Mouse, supposing him to be
food, leaped upon him, and was instantly caught and squeezed to
death. Another perished in a similar manner, and then a third,
and still others after them. A very old Mouse, who had escaped
many a trap and snare, observed from a safe distance the trick of
his crafty foe and said, "Ah! you that lie there, may you prosper
just in the same proportion as you are what you pretend to be!"
The Boy Bathing
A BOY bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned. He
called out to a passing traveler for help, but instead of holding
out a helping hand, the man stood by unconcernedly, and scolded
the boy for his imprudence. "Oh, sir!" cried the youth, "pray
help me now and scold me afterwards."
Counsel without help is useless.
The Ass and the Wolf
AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him,
and immediately pretended to be lame. The Wolf, coming up,
inquired the cause of his lameness. The Ass replied that passing
through a hedge he had trod with his foot upon a sharp thorn. He
requested that the Wolf pull it out, lest when he ate him it
should injure his throat. The Wolf consented and lifted up the
foot, and was giving his whole mind to the discovery of the
thorn, when the Ass, with his heels, kicked his teeth into his
mouth and galloped away. The Wolf, being thus fearfully mauled,
said, "I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of
healing, when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?'
The Seller of Images
A CERTAIN MAN made a wooden image of Mercury and offered it for
sale. When no one appeared willing to buy it, in order to
attract purchasers, he cried out that he had the statue to sell
of a benefactor who bestowed wealth and helped to heap up riches.
One of the bystanders said to him, "My good fellow, why do you
sell him, being such a one as you describe, when you may yourself
enjoy the good things he has to give?' "Why," he replied, "I am
in need of immediate help, and he is wont to give his good gifts
very slowly."
The Fox and the Grapes
A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging
from a trellised vine. She resorted to all her tricks to get at
them, but wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them.
At last she turned away, hiding her disappointment and saying:
"The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought."
The Man and His Wife
A MAN had a Wife who made herself hated by all the members of his
household. Wishing to find out if she had the same effect on the
persons in her father's house, he made some excuse to send her
home on a visit to her father. After a short time she returned,
and when he inquired how she had got on and how the servants had
treated her, she replied, "The herdsmen and shepherds cast on me
looks of aversion." He said, "O Wife, if you were disliked by
those who go out early in the morning with their flocks and
return late in the evening, what must have been felt towards you
by those with whom you passed the whole day!"
Straws show how the wind blows.
The Peacock and Juno
THE PEACOCK made complaint to Juno that, while the nightingale
pleased every ear with his song, he himself no sooner opened his
mouth than he became a laughingstock to all who heard him. The
Goddess, to console him, said, "But you far excel in beauty and
in size. The splendor of the emerald shines in your neck and you
unfold a tail gorgeous with painted plumage." "But for what
purpose have I," said the bird, "this dumb beauty so long as I am
surpassed in song?' "The lot of each," replied Juno, "has been
assigned by the will of the Fates--to thee, beauty; to the eagle,
strength; to the nightingale, song; to the raven, favorable,
and to the crow, unfavorable auguries. These are all contented
with the endowments allotted to them."
The Hawk and the Nightingale
A NIGHTINGALE, sitting aloft upon an oak and singing according to
his wont, was seen by a Hawk who, being in need of food, swooped
down and seized him. The Nightingale, about to lose his life,
earnestly begged the Hawk to let him go, saying that he was not
big enough to satisfy the hunger of a Hawk who, if he wanted
food, ought to pursue the larger birds. The Hawk, interrupting
him, said: "I should indeed have lost my senses if I should let
go food ready in my hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which
are not yet even within sight."
The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox
A DOG and a Cock being great friends, agreed to travel together.
At nightfall they took shelter in a thick wood. The Cock flying
up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while the Dog
found a bed beneath in the hollow trunk. When the morning
dawned, the Cock, as usual, crowed very loudly several times. A
Fox heard the sound, and wishing to make a breakfast on him, came
and stood under the branches, saying how earnestly he desired to
make the acquaintance of the owner of so magnificent a voice.
The Cock, suspecting his civilities, said: "Sir, I wish you would
do me the favor of going around to the hollow trunk below me, and
waking my porter, so that he may open the door and let you in."
When the Fox approached the tree, the Dog sprang out and caught
him, and tore him to pieces.
The Wolf and the Goat
A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice,
where he had no chance of reaching her. He called to her and
earnestly begged her to come lower down, lest she fall by some
mishap; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing,
and that the herbage was most tender. She replied, "No, my
friend, it is not for the pasture that you invite me, but for
yourself, who are in want of food."
The Lion and the Bull
A LION, greatly desiring to capture a Bull, and yet afraid to
attack him on account of his great size, resorted to a trick to
ensure his destruction. He approached the Bull and said, "I have
slain a fine sheep, my friend; and if you will come home and
partake of him with me, I shall be delighted to have your
company." The Lion said this in the hope that, as the Bull was in
the act of reclining to eat, he might attack him to advantage,
and make his meal on him. The Bull, on approaching the Lion's
den, saw the huge spits and giant caldrons, and no sign whatever
of the sheep, and, without saying a word, quietly took his
departure. The Lion inquired why he went off so abruptly without
a word of salutation to his host, who had not given him any cause
for offense. "I have reasons enough," said the Bull. "I see no
indication whatever of your having slaughtered a sheep, while I
do see very plainly every preparation for your dining on a bull."
The Goat and the Ass
A MAN once kept a Goat and an Ass. The Goat, envying the Ass on
account of his greater abundance of food, said, "How shamefully
you are treated: at one time grinding in the mill, and at another
carrying heavy burdens"; and he further advised him to pretend to
be epileptic and fall into a ditch and so obtain rest. The Ass
listened to his words, and falling into a ditch, was very much
bruised. His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice. He
bade him pour upon the wounds the lungs of a Goat. They at once
killed the Goat, and so healed the Ass.
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
A COUNTRY MOUSE invited a Town Mouse, an intimate friend, to pay
him a visit and partake of his country fare. As they were on the
bare plowlands, eating there wheat-stocks and roots pulled up
from the hedgerow, the Town Mouse said to his friend, "You live
here the life of the ants, while in my house is the horn of
plenty. I am surrounded by every luxury, and if you will come
with me, as I wish you would, you shall have an ample share of my
dainties." The Country Mouse was easily persuaded, and returned
to town with his friend. On his arrival, the Town Mouse placed
before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey, raisins, and,
last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese from a basket. The
Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such good
cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms and lamented his
own hard fate. Just as they were beginning to eat, someone
opened the door, and they both ran off squeaking, as fast as they
could, to a hole so narrow that two could only find room in it by
squeezing. They had scarcely begun their repast again when
someone else entered to take something out of a cupboard,
whereupon the two Mice, more frightened than before, ran away and
hid themselves. At last the Country Mouse, almost famished, said
to his friend: "Although you have prepared for me so dainty a
feast, I must leave you to enjoy it by yourself. It is
surrounded by too many dangers to please me. I prefer my bare
plowlands and roots from the hedgerow, where I can live in
safety, and without fear."
The Wolf, the Fox, and the Ape
A WOLF accused a Fox of theft, but the Fox entirely denied the
charge. An Ape undertook to adjudge the matter between them.
When each had fully stated his case the Ape announced this
sentence: "I do not think you, Wolf, ever lost what you claim;
and I do believe you, Fox, to have stolen what you so stoutly
deny."
The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit.
The Fly and the Draught-Mule
A FLY sat on the axle-tree of a chariot, and addressing the
Draught-Mule said, "How slow you are! Why do you not go faster?
See if I do not prick your neck with my sting." The Draught-Mule
replied, "I do not heed your threats; I only care for him who
sits above you, and who quickens my pace with his whip, or holds
me back with the reins. Away, therefore, with your insolence,
for I know well when to go fast, and when to go slow."
The Fishermen
SOME FISHERMEN were out trawling their nets. Perceiving them to
be very heavy, they danced about for joy and supposed that they
had taken a large catch. When they had dragged the nets to the
shore they found but few fish: the nets were full of sand and
stones, and the men were beyond measure cast downso much at the
disappointment which had befallen them, but because they had
formed such very different expectations. One of their company,
an old man, said, "Let us cease lamenting, my mates, for, as it
seems to me, sorrow is always the twin sister of joy; and it was
only to be looked for that we, who just now were over-rejoiced,
should next have something to make us sad."
The Lion and the Three Bulls
THREE BULLS for a long time pastured together. A Lion lay in
ambush in the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to
attack them while they kept together. Having at last by guileful
speeches succeeded in separating them, he attacked them without
fear as they fed alone, and feasted on them one by one at his own
leisure.
Union is strength.
The Fowler and the Viper
A FOWLER, taking his bird-lime and his twigs, went out to catch
birds. Seeing a thrush sitting upon a tree, he wished to take
it, and fitting his twigs to a proper length, watched intently,
having his whole thoughts directed towards the sky. While thus
looking upwards, he unknowingly trod upon a Viper asleep just
before his feet. The Viper, turning about, stung him, and
falling into a swoon, the man said to himself, "Woe is me! that
while I purposed to hunt another, I am myself fallen unawares
into the snares of death."
The Horse and the Ass
A HORSE, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway.
The Ass, being heavily laden, moved slowly out of the way.
"Hardly," said the Horse, "can I resist kicking you with my
heels." The Ass held his peace, and made only a silent appeal to
the justice of the gods. Not long afterwards the Horse, having
become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm. The
Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: "Where, O
boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself
reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?'
The Fox and the Mask
A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all
his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a
human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful
head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."
The Geese and the Cranes
THE GEESE and the Cranes were feeding in the same meadow, when a
birdcatcher came to ensnare them in his nets. The Cranes, being
light of wing, fled away at his approach; while the Geese, being
slower of flight and heavier in their bodies, were captured.
The Blind Man and the Whelp
A BLIND MAN was accustomed to distinguishing different animals by
touching them with his hands. The whelp of a Wolf was brought
him, with a request that he would feel it, and say what it was.
He felt it, and being in doubt, said: "I do not quite know
whether it is the cub of a Fox, or the whelp of a Wolf, but this
I know full well. It would not be safe to admit him to the
sheepfold."
Evil tendencies are shown in early life.
The Dogs and the Fox
SOME DOGS, finding the skin of a lion, began to tear it in pieces
with their teeth. A Fox, seeing them, said, "If this lion were
alive, you would soon find out that his claws were stronger than
your teeth."
It is easy to kick a man that is down.
The Cobbler Turned Doctor
A COBBLER unable to make a living by his trade and made desperate
by poverty, began to practice medicine in a town in which he was
not known. He sold a drug, pretending that it was an antidote to
all poisons, and obtained a great name for himself by long-winded
puffs and advertisements. When the Cobbler happened to fall sick
himself of a serious illness, the Governor of the town determined
to test his skill. For this purpose he called for a cup, and
while filling it with water, pretended to mix poison with the
Cobbler's antidote, commanding him to drink it on the promise of
a reward. The Cobbler, under the fear of death, confessed that
he had no knowledge of medicine, and was only made famous by the
stupid clamors of the crowd. The Governor then called a public
assembly and addressed the citizens: "Of what folly have you been
guilty? You have not hesitated to entrust your heads to a man,
whom no one could employ to make even the shoes for their feet."
The Wolf and the Horse
A WOLF coming out of a field of oats met a Horse and thus
addressed him: "I would advise you to go into that field. It is
full of fine oats, which I have left untouched for you, as you
are a friend whom I would love to hear enjoying good eating." The
Horse replied, "If oats had been the food of wolves, you would
never have indulged your ears at the cost of your belly."
Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to
get credit for it.
The Brother and the Sister
A FATHER had one son and one daughter, the former remarkable for
his good looks, the latter for her extraordinary ugliness. While
they were playing one day as children, they happened by chance to
look together into a mirror that was placed on their mother's
chair. The boy congratulated himself on his good looks; the girl
grew angry, and could not bear the self-praises of her Brother,
interpreting all he said (and how could she do otherwise?) into
reflection on herself. She ran off to her father. to be avenged
on her Brother, and spitefully accused him of having, as a boy,
made use of that which belonged only to girls. The father
embraced them both, and bestowing his kisses and affection
impartially on each, said, "I wish you both would look into the
mirror every day: you, my son, that you may not spoil your beauty
by evil conduct; and you, my daughter, that you may make up for
your lack of beauty by your virtues."
The Wasps, the Partridges, and the Farmer
THE WASPS and the Partridges, overcome with thirst, came to a
Farmer and besought him to give them some water to drink. They
promised amply to repay him the favor which they asked. The
Partridges declared that they would dig around his vines and make
them produce finer grapes. The Wasps said that they would keep
guard and drive off thieves with their stings. But the Farmer
interrupted them, saying: "I have already two oxen, who, without
making any promises, do all these things. It is surely better
for me to give the water to them than to you."
The Crow and Mercury
A CROW caught in a snare prayed to Apollo to release him, making
a vow to offer some frankincense at his shrine. But when rescued
from his danger, he forgot his promise. Shortly afterwards,
again caught in a snare, he passed by Apollo and made the same
promise to offer frankincense to Mercury. Mercury soon appeared
and said to him, "O thou most base fellow? how can I believe
thee, who hast disowned and wronged thy former patron?'
The North Wind and the Sun
THE NORTH WIND and the Sun disputed as to which was the most
powerful, and agreed that he should be declared the victor who
could first strip a wayfaring man of his clothes. The North Wind
first tried his power and blew with all his might, but the keener
his blasts, the closer the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him,
until at last, resigning all hope of victory, the Wind called
upon the Sun to see what he could do. The Sun suddenly shone out
with all his warmth. The Traveler no sooner felt his genial rays
than he took off one garment after another, and at last, fairly
overcome with heat, undressed and bathed in a stream that lay in
his path.
Persuasion is better than Force.
The Two Men Who Were Enemies
TWO MEN, deadly enemies to each other, were sailing in the same
vessel. Determined to keep as far apart as possible, the one
seated himself in the stem, and the other in the prow of the
ship. A violent storm arose, and with the vessel in great danger
of sinking, the one in the stern inquired of the pilot which of
the two ends of the ship would go down first. On his replying
that he supposed it would be the prow, the Man said, "Death would
not be grievous to me, if I could only see my Enemy die before
me."
The Gamecocks and the Partridge
A MAN had two Gamecocks in his poultry-yard. One day by chance
he found a tame Partridge for sale. He purchased it and brought
it home to be reared with his Gamecocks. When the Partridge was
put into the poultry-yard, they struck at it and followed it
about, so that the Partridge became grievously troubled and
supposed that he was thus evilly treated because he was a
stranger. Not long afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together
and not separating before one had well beaten the other. He then
said to himself, "I shall no longer distress myself at being
struck at by these Gamecocks, when I see that they cannot even
refrain from quarreling with each other."
The Quack Frog
A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and
proclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician,
skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases. A Fox
asked him, "How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you
are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?'
The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox
A LION, growing old, lay sick in his cave. All the beasts came
to visit their king, except the Fox. The Wolf therefore,
thinking that he had a capital opportunity, accused the Fox to
the Lion of not paying any respect to him who had the rule over
them all and of not coming to visit him. At that very moment the
Fox came in and heard these last words of the Wolf. The Lion
roaring out in a rage against him, the Fox sought an opportunity
to defend himself and said, "And who of all those who have come
to you have benefited you so much as I, who have traveled from
place to place in every direction, and have sought and learnt
from the physicians the means of healing you?' The Lion commanded
him immediately to tell him the cure, when he replied, "You must
flay a wolf alive and wrap his skin yet warm around you." The
Wolf was at once taken and flayed; whereon the Fox, turning to
him, said with a smile, "You should have moved your master not to
ill, but to good, will."
The Dog's House
IN THE WINTERTIME, a Dog curled up in as small a space as
possible on account of the cold, determined to make himself a
house. However when the summer returned again, he lay asleep
stretched at his full length and appeared to himself to be of a
great size. Now he considered that it would be neither an easy
nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would
accommodate him.
The Wolf and the Lion
ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow
become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself,
"Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly
an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion? Ought I not to be
acknowledged as King of all the collected beasts?' While he was
indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him and
killed him. He exclaimed with a too late repentance, "Wretched
me! this overestimation of myself is the cause of my
destruction."
The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat
THE BIRDS waged war with the Beasts, and each were by turns the
conquerors. A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight,
always fought on the side which he felt was the strongest. When
peace was proclaimed, his deceitful conduct was apparent to both
combatants. Therefore being condemned by each for his treachery,
he was driven forth from the light of day, and henceforth
concealed himself in dark hiding-places, flying always alone and
at night.
The Spendthrift and the Swallow
A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all his
patrimony and had but one good cloak left. One day he happened
to see a Swallow, which had appeared before its season, skimming
along a pool and twittering gaily. He supposed that summer had
come, and went and sold his cloak. Not many days later, winter
set in again with renewed frost and cold. When he found the
unfortunate Swallow lifeless on the ground, he said, "Unhappy
bird! what have you done? By thus appearing before the springtime
you have not only killed yourself, but you have wrought my
destruction also."
The Fox and the Lion
A FOX saw a Lion confined in a cage, and standing near him,
bitterly reviled him. The Lion said to the Fox, "It is not thou
who revilest me; but this mischance which has befallen me."
The Owl and the Birds
AN OWL, in her wisdom, counseled the Birds that when the acorn
first began to sprout, to pull it all up out of the ground and
not allow it to grow. She said acorns would produce mistletoe,
from which an irremediable poison, the bird-
lime, would be extracted and by which they would be captured.
The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which
men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them.
And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted that
this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers
which would fly faster than the wings of the Birds themselves.
The Birds gave no credence to these warning words, but considered
the Owl to be beside herself and said that she was mad. But
afterwards, finding her words were true, they wondered at her
knowledge and deemed her to be the wisest of birds. Hence it is
that when she appears they look to her as knowing all things,
while she no longer gives them advice, but in solitude laments
their past folly.
The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner
A TRUMPETER, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the
enemy. He cried out to his captors, "Pray spare me, and do not
take my life without cause or without inquiry. I have not slain
a single man of your troop. I have no arms, and carry nothing
but this one brass trumpet." "That is the very reason for which
you should be put to death," they said; "for, while you do not
fight yourself, your trumpet stirs all the others to battle."
The Ass in the Lion's Skin
AN ASS, having put on the Lion's skin, roamed about in the forest
and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met
in his wanderings. At last coming upon a Fox, he tried to
frighten him also, but the Fox no sooner heard the sound of his
voice than he exclaimed, "I might possibly have been frightened
myself, if I had not heard your bray."
The Sparrow and the Hare
A HARE pounced upon by an eagle sobbed very much and uttered
cries like a child. A Sparrow upbraided her and said, "Where now
is thy remarkable swiftness of foot? Why were your feet so slow?"
While the Sparrow was thus speaking, a hawk suddenly seized him
and killed him. The Hare was comforted in her death, and
expiring said, "Ah! you who so lately, when you supposed yourself
safe, exulted over my calamity, have now reason to deplore a
similar misfortune."
The Flea and the Ox
A FLEA thus questioned an Ox: "What ails you, that being so huge
and strong, you submit to the wrongs you receive from men and
slave for them day by day, while I, being so small a creature,
mercilessly feed on their flesh and drink their blood without
stint?' The Ox replied: "I do not wish to be ungrateful, for I am
loved and well cared for by men, and they often pat my head and
shoulders." "Woe's me!" said the flea; "this very patting which
you like, whenever it happens to me, brings with it my inevitable
destruction."
The Goods and the Ills
ALL the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from that common
share which they each had in the affairs of mankind; for the Ills
by reason of their numbers had prevailed to possess the earth.
The Goods wafted themselves to heaven and asked for a righteous
vengeance on their persecutors. They entreated Jupiter that they
might no longer be associated with the Ills, as they had nothing
in common and could not live together, but were engaged in
unceasing warfare; and that an indissoluble law might be laid
down for their future protection. Jupiter granted their request
and decreed that henceforth the Ills should visit the earth in
company with each other, but that the Goods should one by one
enter the habitations of men. Hence it arises that Ills abound,
for they come not one by one, but in troops, and by no means
singly: while the Goods proceed from Jupiter, and are given, not
alike to all, but singly, and separately; and one by one to those
who are able to discern them.
The Dove and the Crow
A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of
young ones which she had hatched. A Crow hearing her, said: "My
good friend, cease from this unseasonable boasting. The larger
the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in
seeing them shut up in this prison-house."
Mercury and the Workmen
A WORKMAN, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop
- by accident into a deep pool. Being thus deprived of the means
of his livelihood, he sat down on the bank and lamented his hard
fate. Mercury appeared and demanded the cause of his tears.
After he told him his misfortune, Mercury plunged into the
stream, and, bringing up a golden axe, inquired if that were the
one he had lost. On his saying that it was not his, Mercury
disappeared beneath the water a second time, returned with a
silver axe in his hand, and again asked the Workman if it were
his. When the Workman said it was not, he dived into the pool
for the third time and brought up the axe that had been lost.
The Workman claimed it and expressed his joy at its recovery.
Mercury, pleased with his honesty, gave him the golden and silver
axes in addition to his own. The Workman, on his return to his
house, related to his companions all that had happened. One of
them at once resolved to try and secure the same good fortune for
himself. He ran to the river and threw his axe on purpose into
the pool at the same place, and sat down on the bank to weep.
Mercury appeared to him just as he hoped he would; and having
learned the cause of his grief, plunged into the stream and
brought up a golden axe, inquiring if he had lost it. The
Workman seized it greedily, and declared that truly it was the
very same axe that he had lost. Mercury, displeased at his
knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused to
recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool.
The Eagle and the Jackdaw
AN EAGLE, flying down from his perch on a lofty rock, seized upon
a lamb and carried him aloft in his talons. A Jackdaw, who
witnessed the capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy and
determined to emulate the strength and flight of the Eagle. He
flew around with a great whir of his wings and settled upon a
large ram, with the intention of carrying him off, but his claws
became entangled in the ram's fleece and he was not able to
release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as much
as he could. The shepherd, seeing what had happened, ran up and
caught him. He at once clipped the Jackdaw's wings, and taking
him home at night, gave him to his children. On their saying,
"Father, what kind of bird is it?' he replied, "To my certain
knowledge he is a Daw; but he would like you to think an Eagle."
The Fox and the Crane
A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his
entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out
into a broad flat stone dish. The soup fell out of the long bill
of the Crane at every mouthful, and his vexation at not being
able to eat afforded the Fox much amusement. The Crane, in his
turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon
with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck
and enjoy its contents at his leisure. The Fox, unable even to
taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her
own hospitality.
Jupiter, Neptune, Minerva, and Momus
ACCORDING to an ancient legend, the first man was made by
Jupiter, the first bull by Neptune, and the first house by
Minerva. On the completion of their labors, a dispute arose as
to which had made the most perfect work. They agreed to appoint
Momus as judge, and to abide by his decision. Momus, however,
being very envious of the handicraft of each, found fault with
all. He first blamed the work of Neptune because he had not made
the horns of the bull below his eyes, so he might better see
where to strike. He then condemned the work of Jupiter, because
he had not placed the heart of man on the outside, that everyone
might read the thoughts of the evil disposed and take precautions
against the intended mischief. And, lastly, he inveighed against
Minerva because she had not contrived iron wheels in the
foundation of her house, so its inhabitants might more easily
remove if a neighbor proved unpleasant. Jupiter, indignant at
such inveterate faultfinding, drove him from his office of judge,
and expelled him from the mansions of Olympus.
The Eagle and the Fox
AN EAGLE and a Fox formed an intimate friendship and decided to
live near each other. The Eagle built her nest in the branches
of a tall tree, while the Fox crept into the underwood and there
produced her young. Not long after they had agreed upon this
plan, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones,
swooped down while the Fox was out, seized upon one of the little
cubs, and feasted herself and her brood. The Fox on her return,
discovered what had happened, but was less grieved for the death
of her young than for her inability to avenge them. A just
retribution, however, quickly fell upon the Eagle. While
hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were sacrificing
a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of the flesh, and carried it,
along with a burning cinder, to her nest. A strong breeze soon
fanned the spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged
and helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at
the bottom of the tree. There, in the sight of the Eagle, the
Fox gobbled them up.
The Man and the Satyr
A MAN and a Satyr once drank together in token of a bond of
alliance being formed between them. One very cold wintry day, as
they talked, the Man put his fingers to his mouth and blew on
them. When the Satyr asked the reason for this, he told him that
he did it to warm his hands because they were so cold. Later on
in the day they sat down to eat, and the food prepared was quite
scalding. The Man raised one of the dishes a little towards his
mouth and blew in it. When the Satyr again inquired the reason,
he said that he did it to cool the meat, which was too hot. "I
can no longer consider you as a friend," said the Satyr, "a
fellow who with the same breath blows hot and cold."
The Ass and His Purchaser
A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that
he should try out the animal before he bought him. He took the
Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon
which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the
one that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all.
Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to his
owner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could have
made a trial of him, he answered, "I do not need a trial; I know
that he will be just the same as the one he chose for his
companion."
A man is known by the company he keeps.
The Two Bags
EVERY MAN, according to an ancient legend, is born into the world
with two bags suspended from his neck all bag in front full of
his neighbors' faults, and a large bag behind filled with his own
faults. Hence it is that men are quick to see the faults of
others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.
The Stag at the Pool
A STAG overpowered by heat came to a spring to drink. Seeing his
own shadow reflected in the water, he greatly admired the size
and variety of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having
such slender and weak feet. While he was thus contemplating
himself, a Lion appeared at the pool and crouched to spring upon
him. The Stag immediately took to flight, and exerting his
utmost speed, as long as the plain was smooth and open kept
himself easily at a safe distance from the Lion. But entering a
wood he became entangled by his horns, and the Lion quickly came
up to him and caught him. When too late, he thus reproached
himself: "Woe is me! How I have deceived myself! These feet which
would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in these antlers
which have proved my destruction."
What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
The Jackdaw and the Fox
A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had
produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the
hope that the figs would ripen. A Fox seeing him sitting so long
and learning the reason of his doing so, said to him, "You are
indeed, sir, sadly deceiving yourself; you are indulging a hope
strong enough to cheat you, but which will never reward you with
enjoyment."
The Lark Burying Her Father
THE LARK (according to an ancient legend) was created before the
earth itself, and when her father died, as there was no earth,
she could find no place of burial for him. She let him lie
uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, not knowing what
else to do, she buried him in her own head. Hence she obtained
her crest, which is popularly said to be her father's
grave-hillock.
Youth's first duty is reverence to parents.
The Gnat and the Bull
A GNAT settled on the horn of a Bull, and sat there a long time.
Just as he was about to fly off, he made a buzzing noise, and
inquired of the Bull if he would like him to go. The Bull
replied, "I did not know you had come, and I shall not miss you
when you go away."
Some men are of more consequence in their own eyes than in the
eyes of their neighbors.
The Bitch and Her Whelps
A BITCH, ready to whelp, earnestly begged a shepherd for a place
where she might litter. When her request was granted, she
besought permission to rear her puppies in the same spot. The
shepherd again consented. But at last the Bitch, protected by
the bodyguard of her Whelps, who had now grown up and were able
to defend themselves, asserted her exclusive right to the place
and would not permit the shepherd to approach.
The Dogs and the Hides
SOME DOGS famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping
in a river. Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink
up the river, but it happened that they burst themselves with
drinking long before they reached the hides.
Attempt not impossibilities.
The Shepherd and the Sheep
A SHEPHERD driving his Sheep to a wood, saw an oak of unusual
size full of acorns, and spreading his cloak under the branches,
he climbed up into the tree and shook them down. The Sheep
eating the acorns inadvertently frayed and tore the cloak. When
the Shepherd came down and saw what was done, he said, "O you
most ungrateful creatures! You provide wool to make garments for
all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him who feeds you."
The Grasshopper and the Owl
AN OWL, accustomed to feed at night and to sleep during the day,
was greatly disturbed by the noise of a Grasshopper and earnestly
besought her to stop chirping. The Grasshopper refused to
desist, and chirped louder and louder the more the Owl entreated.
When she saw that she could get no redress and that her words
were despised, the Owl attacked the chatterer by a stratagem.
"Since I cannot sleep," she said, "on account of your song which,
believe me, is sweet as the lyre of Apollo, I shall indulge
myself in drinking some nectar which Pallas lately gave me. If
you do not dislike it, come to me and we will drink it together."
The Grasshopper, who was thirsty, and pleased with the praise of
her voice, eagerly flew up. The Owl came forth from her hollow,
seized her, and put her to death.
The Monkey and the Camel
THE BEASTS of the forest gave a splendid entertainment at which
the Monkey stood up and danced. Having vastly delighted the
assembly, he sat down amidst universal applause. The Camel,
envious of the praises bestowed on the Monkey and desiring to
divert to himself the favor of the guests, proposed to stand up
in his turn and dance for their amusement. He moved about in so
utterly ridiculous a manner that the Beasts, in a fit of
indignation, set upon him with clubs and drove him out of the
assembly.
It is absurd to ape our betters.
The Peasant and the Apple-Tree
A PEASANT had in his garden an Apple-Tree which bore no fruit but
only served as a harbor for the sparrows and grasshoppers. He
resolved to cut it down, and taking his axe in his hand, made a
bold stroke at its roots. The grasshoppers and sparrows
entreated him not to cut down the tree that sheltered them, but
to spare it, and they would sing to him and lighten his labors.
He paid no attention to their request, but gave the tree a second
and a third blow with his axe. When he reached the hollow of the
tree, he found a hive full of honey. Having tasted the
honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as
sacred, took great care of it.
Self-interest alone moves some men.
The Two Soldiers and the Robber
TWO SOLDIERS traveling together were set upon by a Robber. The
one fled away; the other stood his ground and defended himself
with his stout right hand. The Robber being slain, the timid
companion ran up and drew his sword, and then, throwing back his
traveling cloak said, "I'll at him, and I'll take care he shall
learn whom he has attacked." On this, he who had fought with the
Robber made answer, "I only wish that you had helped me just now,
even if it had been only with those words, for I should have been
the more encouraged, believing them to be true; but now put up
your sword in its sheath and hold your equally useless tongue,
till you can deceive others who do not know you. I, indeed, who
have experienced with what speed you run away, know right well
that no dependence can be placed on your valor."
The Trees Under the Protection of the Gods
THE GODS, according to an ancient legend, made choice of certain
trees to be under their special protection. Jupiter chose the
oak, Venus the myrtle, Apollo the laurel, Cybele the pine, and
Hercules the poplar. Minerva, wondering why they had preferred
trees not yielding fruit, inquired the reason for their choice.
Jupiter replied, "It is lest we should seem to covet the honor
for the fruit." But said Minerva, "Let anyone say what he will
the olive is more dear to me on account of its fruit." Then said
Jupiter, "My daughter, you are rightly called wise; for unless
what we do is useful, the glory of it is vain."
The Mother and the Wolf
A FAMISHED WOLF was prowling about in the morning in search of
food. As he passed the door of a cottage built in the forest, he
heard a Mother say to her child, "Be quiet, or I will throw you
out of the window, and the Wolf shall eat you." The Wolf sat all
day waiting at the door. In the evening he heard the same woman
fondling her child and saying: "You are quiet now, and if the
Wolf should come, we will kill him." The Wolf, hearing these
words, went home, gasping with cold and hunger. When he reached
his den, Mistress Wolf inquired of him why he returned wearied
and supperless, so contrary to his wont. He replied: "Why,
forsooth!
use I gave credence to the words of a woman!"
The Ass and the Horse
AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed.
"Yes," said the Horse; "if any remains out of what I am now
eating I will give it you for the sake of my own superior
dignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in the
evening, I will give you a little sack full of barley." The Ass
replied, "Thank you. But I can't think that you, who refuse me a
little matter now. will by and by confer on me a greater
benefit."
Truth and the Traveler
A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing
alone and terribly dejected. He inquired of her, "Who art thou?"
"My name is Truth," she replied. "And for what cause," he asked,
"have you left the city to dwell alone here in the wilderness?"
She made answer, "Because in former times, falsehood was with
few, but is now with all men."
The Manslayer
A MAN committed a murder, and was pursued by the relations of the
man whom he murdered. On his reaching the river Nile he saw a
Lion on its bank and being fearfully afraid, climbed up a tree.
He found a serpent in the upper branches of the tree, and again
being greatly alarmed, he threw himself into the river, where a
crocodile caught him and ate him. Thus the earth, the air, and
the water alike refused shelter to a murderer.
The Lion and the Fox
A FOX entered into partnership with a Lion on the pretense of
becoming his servant. Each undertook his proper duty in
accordance with his own nature and powers. The Fox discovered
and pointed out the prey; the Lion sprang on it and seized it.
The Fox soon became jealous of the Lion carrying off the Lion's
share, and said that he would no longer find out the prey, but
would capture it on his own account. The next day he attempted
to snatch a lamb from the fold, but he himself fell prey to the
huntsmen and hounds.
The Lion and the Eagle
AN EAGLE stayed his flight and entreated a Lion to make an
alliance with him to their mutual advantage. The Lion replied,
"I have no objection, but you must excuse me for requiring you to
find surety for your good faith, for how can I trust anyone as a
friend who is able to fly away from his bargain whenever he
pleases?'
Try before you trust.
The Hen and the Swallow
A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them
warm, nourished them into life. A Swallow, observing what she
had done, said, "You silly creature! why have you hatched these
vipers which, when they shall have grown, will inflict injury on
all, beginning with yourself?'
The Buffoon and the Countryman
A RICH NOBLEMAN once opened the theaters without charge to the
people, and gave a public notice that he would handsomely reward
any person who invented a new amusement for the occasion.
Various public performers contended for the prize. Among them
came a Buffoon well known among the populace for his jokes, and
said that he had a kind of entertainment which had never been
brought out on any stage before. This report being spread about
made a great stir, and the theater was crowded in every part.
The Buffoon appeared alone upon the platform, without any
apparatus or confederates, and the very sense of expectation
caused an intense silence. He suddenly bent his head towards his
bosom and imitated the squeaking of a little pig so admirably
with his voice that the audience declared he had a porker under
his cloak, and demanded that it should be shaken out. When that
was done and nothing was found, they cheered the actor, and
loaded him with the loudest applause. A Countryman in the crowd,
observing all that has passed, said, "So help me, Hercules, he
shall not beat me at that trick!" and at once proclaimed that he
would do the same thing on the next day, though in a much more
natural way. On the morrow a still larger crowd assembled in the
theater, but now partiality for their favorite actor very
generally prevailed, and the audience came rather to ridicule the
Countryman than to see the spectacle. Both of the performers
appeared on the stage. The Buffoon grunted and squeaked away
first, and obtained, as on the preceding day, the applause and
cheers of the spectators. Next the Countryman commenced, and
pretending that he concealed a little pig beneath his clothes
(which in truth he did, but not suspected by the audience )
contrived to take hold of and to pull his ear causing the pig to
squeak. The Crowd, however, cried out with one consent that the
Buffoon had given a far more exact imitation, and clamored for
the Countryman to be kicked out of the theater. On this the
rustic produced the little pig from his cloak and showed by the
most positive proof the greatness of their mistake. "Look here,"
he said, "this shows what sort of judges you are."
The Crow and the Serpent
A CROW in great want of food saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny
nook, and flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning
about, bit the Crow with a mortal wound. In the agony of death,
the bird exclaimed: "O unhappy me! who have found in that which I
deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction."
The Hunter and the Horseman
A CERTAIN HUNTER, having snared a hare, placed it upon his
shoulders and set out homewards. On his way he met a man on
horseback who begged the hare of him, under the pretense of
purchasing it. However, when the Horseman got the hare, he rode
off as fast as he could. The Hunter ran after him, as if he was
sure of overtaking him, but the Horseman increased more and more
the distance between them. The Hunter, sorely against his will,
called out to him and said, "Get along with you! for I will now
make you a present of the hare."
The King's Son and the Painted Lion
A KING, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a dream
in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion.
Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a
pleasant palace and adorned its walls for his amusement with all
kinds of life-sized animals, among which was the picture of a
lion. When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus
confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said:
"O you most detestable of animals! through a lying dream of my
father's, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on your account
in this palace as if I had been a girl: what shall I now do to
you?' With these words he stretched out his hands toward a
thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he
might beat the lion. But one of the tree's prickles pierced his
finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young
Prince fell down in a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set
in, from which he died not many days later.
We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.
The Cat and Venus
A CAT fell in love with a handsome young man, and entreated Venus
to change her into the form of a woman. Venus consented to her
request and transformed her into a beautiful damsel, so that the
youth saw her and loved her, and took her home as his bride.
While the two were reclining in their chamber, Venus wishing to
discover if the Cat in her change of shape had also altered her
habits of life, let down a mouse in the middle of the room. The
Cat, quite forgetting her present condition, started up from the
couch and pursued the mouse, wishing to eat it. Venus was much
disappointed and again caused her to return to her former shape.
Nature exceeds nurture.
The She-Goats and Their Beards
THE SHE-GOATS having obtained a beard by request to Jupiter, the
He-Goats were sorely displeased and made complaint that the
females equaled them in dignity. "Allow them," said Jupiter, "to
enjoy an empty honor and to assume the badge of your nobler sex,
so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage."
It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit should
be like us in outside appearances.
The Camel and the Arab
AN ARAB CAMEL-DRIVER, after completing the loading of his Camel,
asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down. The
poor beast replied, not without a touch of reason: "Why do you
ask me? Is it that the level way through the desert is closed?"
The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass
A MILLER and his son were driving their Ass to a neighboring fair
to sell him. They had not gone far when they met with a troop of
women collected round a well, talking and laughing. "Look
there," cried one of them, "did you ever see such fellows, to be
trudging along the road on foot when they might ride?' The old
man hearing this, quickly made his son mount the Ass, and
continued to walk along merrily by his side. Presently they came
up to a group of old men in earnest debate. "There," said one of
them, "it proves what I was a-saying. What respect is shown to
old age in these days? Do you see that idle lad riding while his
old father has to walk? Get down, you young scapegrace, and let
the old man rest his weary limbs." Upon this the old man made his
son dismount, and got up himself. In this manner they had not
proceeded far when they met a company of women and children:
"Why, you lazy old fellow," cried several tongues at once, "how
can you ride upon the beast, while that poor little lad there can
hardly keep pace by the side of you?' The good-natured Miller
immediately took up his son behind him. They had now almost
reached the town. "Pray, honest friend," said a citizen, "is
that Ass your own?' "Yes," replied the old man. "O, one would
not have thought so," said the other, "by the way you load him.
Why, you two fellows are better able to carry the poor beast than
he you." "Anything to please you," said the old man; "we can but
try." So, alighting with his son, they tied the legs of the Ass
together and with the help of a pole endeavored to carry him on
their shoulders over a bridge near the entrance to the town.
This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at
it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling
that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and,
tumbling off the pole, fell into the river. Upon this, the old
man, vexed and ashamed, made the best of his way home again,
convinced that by endeavoring to please everybody he had pleased
nobody, and lost his Ass in the bargain.
The Crow and the Sheep
A TROUBLESOME CROW seated herself on the back of a Sheep. The
Sheep, much against his will, carried her backward and forward
for a long time, and at last said, "If you had treated a dog in
this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth."
To this the Crow replied, "I despise the weak and yield to the
strong. I know whom I may bully and whom I must flatter; and I
thus prolong my life to a good old age."
The Fox and the Bramble
A FOX was mounting a hedge when he lost his footing and caught
hold of a Bramble to save himself. Having pricked and grievously
tom the soles of his feet, he accused the Bramble because, when
he had fled to her for assistance, she had used him worse than
the hedge itself. The Bramble, interrupting him, said, "But you
really must have been out of your senses to fasten yourself on
me, who am myself always accustomed to fasten upon others."
The Wolf and the Lion
A WOLF, having stolen a lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to
his lair. A Lion met him in the path, and seizing the lamb, took
it from him. Standing at a safe distance, the Wolf exclaimed,
"You have unrighteously taken that which was mine from me!" To
which the Lion jeeringly replied, "It was righteously yours, eh?
The gift of a friend?'
The Dog and the Oyster
A DOG, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster and, opening his mouth
to its widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish,
supposing it to be an egg. Soon afterwards suffering great pain
in his stomach, he said, "I deserve all this torment, for my
folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg."
They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into
unsuspected danger.
The Ant and the Dove
AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and
being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of
drowning. A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked
a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Ant
climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortly
afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laid
his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant,
perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain the
birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove
take wing.
The Partridge and the Fowler
A FOWLER caught a Partridge and was about to kill it. The
Partridge earnestly begged him to spare his life, saying, "Pray,
master, permit me to live and I will entice many Partridges to
you in recompense for your mercy to me." The Fowler replied, "I
shall now with less scruple take your life, because you are
willing to save it at the cost of betraying your friends and
relations."
The Flea and the Man
A MAN, very much annoyed with a Flea, caught him at last, and
said, "Who are you who dare to feed on my limbs, and to cost me
so much trouble in catching you?' The Flea replied, "O my dear
sir, pray spare my life, and destroy me not, for I cannot
possibly do you much harm." The Man, laughing, replied, "Now you
shall certainly die by mine own hands, for no evil, whether it be
small or large, ought to be tolerated."
The Thieves and the Cock
SOME THIEVES broke into a house and found nothing but a Cock,
whom they stole, and got off as fast as they could. Upon
arriving at home they prepared to kill the Cock, who thus pleaded
for his life: "Pray spare me; I am very serviceable to men. I
wake them up in the night to their work." "That is the very
reason why we must the more kill you," they replied; "for when
you wake your neighbors, you entirely put an end to our
business."
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil
intentions.
The Dog and the Cook
A RICH MAN gave a great feast, to which he invited many friends
and acquaintances. His Dog availed himself of the occasion to
invite a stranger Dog, a friend of his, saying, "My master gives
a feast, and there is always much food remaining; come and sup
with me tonight." The Dog thus invited went at the hour
appointed, and seeing the preparations for so grand an
entertainment, said in the joy of his heart, "How glad I am that
I came! I do not often get such a chance as this. I will take
care and eat enough to last me both today and tomorrow." While he
was congratulating himself and wagging his tail to convey his
pleasure to his friend, the Cook saw him moving about among his
dishes and, seizing him by his fore and hind paws, bundled him
without ceremony out of the window. He fell with force upon the
ground and limped away, howling dreadfully. His yelling soon
attracted other street dogs, who came up to him and inquired how
he had enjoyed his supper. He replied, "Why, to tell you the
truth, I drank so much wine that I remember nothing. I do not
know how I got out of the house."
The Travelers and the Plane-Tree
TWO TRAVELERS, worn out by the heat of the summer's sun, laid
themselves down at noon under the widespreading branches of a
Plane-Tree. As they rested under its shade, one of the Travelers
said to the other, "What a singularly useless tree is the Plane!
It bears no fruit, and is not of the least service to man." The
Plane-Tree, interrupting him, said, "You ungrateful fellows! Do
you, while receiving benefits from me and resting under my shade,
dare to describe me as useless, and unprofitable?'
Some men underrate their best blessings.
The Hares and the Frogs
THE HARES, oppressed by their own exceeding timidity and weary of
the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord
determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles by
jumping from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below. As they
scampered off in large numbers to carry out their resolve, the
Frogs lying on the banks of the lake heard the noise of their
feet and rushed helter-skelter to the deep water for safety. On
seeing the rapid disappearance of the Frogs, one of the Hares
cried out to his companions: "Stay, my friends, do not do as you
intended; for you now see that there are creatures who are still
more timid than ourselves."
The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant
THE LION wearied Jupiter with his frequent complaints. "It is
true, O Jupiter!" he said, "that I am gigantic in strength,
handsome in shape, and powerful in attack. I have jaws well
provided with teeth, and feet furnished with claws, and I lord it
over all the beasts of the forest, and what a disgrace it is,
that being such as I am, I should be frightened by the crowing of
a cock." Jupiter replied, "Why do you blame me without a cause? I
have given you all the attributes which I possess myself, and
your courage never fails you except in this one instance." On
hearing this the Lion groaned and lamented very much and,
reproaching himself with his cowardice, wished that he might die.
As these thoughts passed through his mind, he met an Elephant and
came close to hold a conversation with him. After a time he
observed that the Elephant shook his ears very often, and he
inquired what was the matter and why his ears moved with such a
tremor every now and then. Just at that moment a Gnat settled on
the head of the Elephant, and he replied, "Do you see that little
buzzing insect? If it enters my ear, my fate is sealed. I should
die presently." The Lion said, "Well, since so huge a beast is
afraid of a tiny gnat, I will no more complain, nor wish myself
dead. I find myself, even as I am, better off than the
Elephant."
The Lamb and the Wolf
A WOLF pursued a Lamb, which fled for refuge to a certain Temple.
The Wolf called out to him and said, "The Priest will slay you in
sacrifice, if he should catch you." On which the Lamb replied,
"It would be better for me to be sacrificed in the Temple than to
be eaten by you."
The Rich Man and the Tanner
A RICH MAN lived near a Tanner, and not being able to bear the
unpleasant smell of the tan-yard, he pressed his neighbor to go
away. The Tanner put off his departure from time to time, saying
that he would leave soon. But as he still continued to stay, as
time went on, the rich man became accustomed to the smell, and
feeling no manner of inconvenience, made no further complaints.
The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea
A SHIPWRECKED MAN, having been cast upon a certain shore, slept
after his buffetings with the deep. After a while he awoke, and
looking upon the Sea, loaded it with reproaches. He argued that
it enticed men with the calmness of its looks, but when it had
induced them to plow its waters, it grew rough and destroyed
them. The Sea, assuming the form of a woman, replied to him:
"Blame not me, my good sir, but the winds, for I am by my own
nature as calm and firm even as this earth; but the winds
suddenly falling on me create these waves, and lash me into
fury."
The Mules and the Robbers
TWO MULES well-laden with packs were trudging along. One carried
panniers filled with money, the other sacks weighted with grain.
The Mule carrying the treasure walked with head erect, as if
conscious of the value of his burden, and tossed up and down the
clear-toned bells fastened to his neck. His companion followed
with quiet and easy step. All of a sudden Robbers rushed upon
them from their hiding-places, and in the scuffle with their
owners, wounded with a sword the Mule carrying the treasure,
which they greedily seized while taking no notice of the grain.
The Mule which had been robbed and wounded bewailed his
misfortunes. The other replied, "I am indeed glad that I was
thought so little of, for I have lost nothing, nor am I hurt with
any wound."
The Viper and the File
A LION, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools
the means of satisfying his hunger. He more particularly
addressed himself to a File, and asked of him the favor of a
meal. The File replied, "You must indeed be a simple-minded
fellow if you expect to get anything from me, who am accustomed
to take from everyone, and never to give anything in return."
The Lion and the Shepherd
A LION, roaming through a forest, trod upon a thorn. Soon
afterward he came up to a Shepherd and fawned upon him, wagging
his tail as if to say, "I am a suppliant, and seek your aid." The
Shepherd boldly examined the beast, discovered the thorn, and
placing his paw upon his lap, pulled it out; thus relieved of his
pain, the Lion returned into the forest. Some time after, the
Shepherd, being imprisoned on a false accusation, was condemned
"to be cast to the Lions" as the punishment for his imputed
crime. But when the Lion was released from his cage, he
recognized the Shepherd as the man who healed him, and instead of
attacking him, approached and placed his foot upon his lap. The
King, as soon as he heard the tale, ordered the Lion to be set
free again in the forest, and the Shepherd to be pardoned and
restored to his friends.
The Camel and Jupiter
THE CAMEL, when he saw the Bull adorned with horns, envied him
and wished that he himself could obtain the same honors. He went
to Jupiter, and besought him to give him horns. Jupiter, vexed
at his request because he was not satisfied with his size and
strength of body, and desired yet more, not only refused to give
him horns, but even deprived him of a portion of his ears.
The Panther and the Shepherds
A PANTHER, by some mischance, fell into a pit. The Shepherds
discovered him, and some threw sticks at him and pelted him with
stones, while others, moved with compassion towards one about to
die even though no one should hurt him, threw in some food to
prolong his life. At night they returned home, not dreaming of
any danger, but supposing that on the morrow they would find him
dead. The Panther, however, when he had recruited his feeble
strength, freed himself with a sudden bound from the pit, and
hastened to his den with rapid steps. After a few days he came
forth and slaughtered the cattle, and, killing the Shepherds who
had attacked him, raged with angry fury. Then they who had
spared his life, fearing for their safety, surrendered to him
their flocks and begged only for their lives. To them the
Panther made this reply: "I remember alike those who sought my
life with stones, and those who gave me food
aside, therefore, your fears. I return as an enemy only to those
who injured me."
The Ass and the Charger
AN ASS congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and
carefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to
eat and not even that without hard work. But when war broke out,
a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, and riding him to the
charge, rushed into the very midst of the enemy. The Horse was
wounded and fell dead on the battlefield. Then the Ass, seeing
all these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse.
The Eagle and His Captor
AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his
wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at
which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief. Later,
another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to grow
again. The Eagle took flight, and pouncing upon a hare, brought
it at once as an offering to his benefactor. A Fox, seeing this,
exclaimed, "Do not cultivate the favor of this man, but of your
former owner, lest he should again hunt for you and deprive you a
second time of your wings."
The Bald Man and the Fly
A FLY bit the bare head of a Bald Man who, endeavoring to destroy
it, gave himself a heavy slap. Escaping, the Fly said mockingly,
"You who have wished to revenge, even with death, the Prick of a
tiny insect, see what you have done to yourself to add insult to
injury?' The Bald Man replied, "I can easily make peace with
myself, because I know there was no intention to hurt. But you,
an ill-favored and contemptible insect who delights in sucking
human blood, I wish that I could have killed you even if I had
incurred a heavier penalty."
The Olive-Tree and the Fig-Tree
THE OLIVE-TREE ridiculed the Fig-Tree because, while she was
green all the year round, the Fig-Tree changed its leaves with
the seasons. A shower of snow fell upon them, and, finding the
Olive full of foliage, it settled upon its branches and broke
them down with its weight, at once despoiling it of its beauty
and killing the tree. But finding the Fig-Tree denuded of
leaves, the snow fell through to the ground, and did not injure
it at all.
The Eagle and the Kite
AN EAGLE, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a
tree in company with a Kite. "Why," said the Kite, "do I see you
with such a rueful look?' "I seek," she replied, "a mate suitable
for me, and am not able to find one." "Take me," returned the
Kite, "I am much stronger than you are." "Why, are you able to
secure the means of living by your plunder?' "Well, I have often
caught and carried away an ostrich in my talons." The Eagle,
persuaded by these words, accepted him as her mate. Shortly
after the nuptials, the Eagle said, "Fly off and bring me back
the ostrich you promised me." The Kite, soaring aloft into the
air, brought back the shabbiest possible mouse, stinking from the
length of time it had lain about the fields. "Is this," said the
Eagle, "the faithful fulfillment of your promise to me?' The Kite
replied, "That I might attain your royal hand, there is nothing
that I would not have promised, however much I knew that I must
fail in the performance."
The Ass and His Driver
AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off and
bolted to the brink of a deep precipice. While he was in the act
of throwing himself over, his owner seized him by the tail,
endeavoring to pull him back. When the Ass persisted in his
effort, the man let him go and said, "Conquer, but conquer to
your cost."
The Thrush and the Fowler
A THRUSH was feeding on a myrtle-tree and did not move from it
because its berries were so delicious. A Fowler observed her
staying so long in one spot, and having well bird-limed his
reeds, caught her. The Thrush, being at the point of death,
exclaimed, "O foolish creature that I am! For the sake of a
little pleasant food I have deprived myself of my life."
The Rose and the Amaranth
AN AMARANTH planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed
it: "What a lovely flower is the Rose, a favorite alike with Gods
and with men. I envy you your beauty and your perfume." The Rose
replied, "I indeed, dear Amaranth, flourish but for a brief
season! If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish
by an early doom. But thou art immortal and dost never fade, but
bloomest for ever in renewed youth."
The Frogs' Complaint Against the Sun
ONCE UPON A TIME, when the Sun announced his intention to take a
wife, the Frogs lifted up their voices in clamor to the sky.
Jupiter, disturbed by the noise of their croaking, inquired the
cause of their complaint. One of them said, "The Sun, now while
he is single, parches up the marsh, and compels us to die
miserably in our arid homes. What will be our future condition
if he should beget other suns?'
LIFE OF AESOP
THE LIFE and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer,
the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity. Sardis, the
capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient
colony in Thrace; and Cotiaeum, the chief city of a province of
Phrygia, contend for the distinction of being the birthplace of
Aesop. Although the honor thus claimed cannot be definitely
assigned to any one of these places, yet there are a few
incidents now generally accepted by scholars as established
facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of Aesop. He is,
by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about
the year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave. He was
owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos,
Xanthus and Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a
reward for his learning and wit. One of the privileges of a
freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission
to take an active interest in public affairs; and Aesop, like the
philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times,
raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a
position of high renown. In his desire alike to instruct and to
be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and among
others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia,
the great patron, in that day, of learning and of learned men.
He met at the court of Croesus with Solon, Thales, and other
sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal master, by the
part he took in the conversations held with these philosophers,
that he applied to him an expression which has since passed into
a proverb, "The Phrygian has spoken better than all."
On the invitation of Croesus he fixed his residence at Sardis,
and was employed by that monarch in various difficult and
delicate affairs of State. In his discharge of these commissions
he visited the different petty republics of Greece. At one time
he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens, endeavouring,
by the narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile the
inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their
respective rulers Periander and Pisistratus. One of these
ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of Croesus, was
the occasion of his death. Having been sent to Delphi with a
large sum of gold for distribution among the citizens, he was so
provoked at their covetousness that he refused to divide the
money, and sent it back to his master. The Delphians, enraged at
this treatment, accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his
sacred character as ambassador, executed him as a public
criminal. This cruel death of Aesop was not unavenged. The
citizens of Delphi were visited with a series of calamities,
until they made a public reparation of their crime; and, "The
blood of Aesop" became a well-
known adage, bearing witness to the truth that deeds of wrong
would not pass unpunished. Neither did the great fabulist lack
posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory at
Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek
sculptors. Phaedrus thus immortalizes the event:
Aesopo ingentem statuam posuere Attici,
Servumque collocarunt aeterna in basi:
Patere honoris scirent ut cuncti viam;
Nec generi tribui sed virtuti gloriam.
These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of
certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of Aesop.
They were first brought to light, after a patient search and
diligent perusal of ancient authors, by a Frenchman, M. Claude
Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac, who declined the honor of being
tutor to Louis XIII of France, from his desire to devote himself
exclusively to literature. He published his Life of Aesop, Anno
Domini 1632. The later investigations of a host of English and
German scholars have added very little to the facts given by M.
Mezeriac. The substantial truth of his statements has been
confirmed by later criticism and inquiry. It remains to state,
that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac, the life of Aesop
was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of Constantinople,
who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine Emperor
Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the
fourteenth century. His life was prefixed to all the early
editions of these fables, and was republished as late as 1727 by
Archdeacon Croxall as the introduction to his edition of Aesop.
This life by Planudes contains, however, so small an amount of
truth, and is so full of absurd pictures of the grotesque
deformity of Aesop, of wondrous apocryphal stories, of lying
legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now universally
condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic. l It is given up
in the present day, by general consent, as unworthy of the
slightest credit.
G.F.T.
1 M. Bayle thus characterises this Life of Aesop by Planudes,
"Tous les habiles gens conviennent que c'est un roman, et que les
absurdites grossieres qui l'on y trouve le rendent indigne de
toute."
Dictionnaire Historique. Art. Esope.
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PREFACE
THE TALE, the Parable, and the Fable are all common and popular
modes of conveying instruction. Each is distinguished by its own
special characteristics. The Tale consists simply in the
narration of a story either founded on facts, or created solely
by the imagination, and not necessarily associated with the
teaching of any moral lesson. The Parable is the designed use of
language purposely intended to convey a hidden and secret
meaning other than that contained in the words themselves; and
which may or may not bear a special reference to the hearer, or
reader. The Fable partly agrees with, and partly differs from
both of these. It will contain, like the Tale, a short but real
narrative; it will seek, like the Parable, to convey a hidden
meaning, and that not so much by the use of language, as by the
skilful introduction of fictitious characters; and yet unlike to
either Tale or Parable, it will ever keep in view, as its high
prerogative, and inseparable attribute, the great purpose of
instruction, and will necessarily seek to inculcate some moral
maxim, social duty, or political truth. The true Fable, if it
rise to its high requirements, ever aims at one great end and
purpose representation of human motive, and the improvement of
human conduct, and yet it so conceals its design under the
disguise of fictitious characters, by clothing with speech the
animals of the field, the birds of the air, the trees of the
wood, or the beasts of the forest, that the reader shall receive
advice without perceiving the presence of the adviser. Thus the
superiority of the counsellor, which often renders counsel
unpalatable, is kept out of view, and the lesson comes with the
greater acceptance when the reader is led, unconsciously to
himself, to have his sympathies enlisted in behalf of what is
pure, honorable, and praiseworthy, and to have his indignation
excited against what is low, ignoble, and unworthy. The true
fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function. He is
neither a narrator, nor an allegorist. He is a great teacher, a
corrector of morals, a censor of vice, and a commender of virtue.
In this consists the superiority of the Fable over the Tale or
the Parable. The fabulist is to create a laugh, but yet, under a
merry guise, to convey instruction. Phaedrus, the great imitator
of Aesop, plainly indicates this double purpose to be the true
office of the writer of fables.
Duplex libelli dos est: quod risum movet,
Et quod prudenti vitam consilio monet.
The continual observance of this twofold aim creates the charm,
and accounts for the universal favor, of the fables of Aesop.
"The fable," says Professor K. O. Mueller, "originated in Greece
in an intentional travestie of human affairs. The 'ainos,' as
its name denotes, is an admonition, or rather a reproof veiled,
either from fear of an excess of frankness, or from a love of fun
and jest, beneath the fiction of an occurrence happening among
beasts; and wherever we have any ancient and authentic account of
the Aesopian fables, we find it to be the same." l
The construction of a fable involves a minute attention to (1)
the narration itself; (2) the deduction of the moral; and (3) a
careful maintenance of the individual characteristics of the
fictitious personages introduced into it. The narration should
relate to one simple action, consistent with itself, and neither
be overladen with a multiplicity of details, nor distracted by a
variety of circumstances. The moral or lesson should be so
plain, and so intimately interwoven with, and so necessarily
dependent on, the narration, that every reader should be
compelled to give to it the same undeniable interpretation. The
introduction of the animals or fictitious characters should be
marked with an unexceptionable care and attention to their
natural attributes, and to the qualities attributed to them by
universal popular consent. The Fox should be always cunning, the
Hare timid, the Lion bold, the Wolf cruel, the Bull strong, the
Horse proud, and the Ass patient. Many of these fables are
characterized by the strictest observance of these rules. They
are occupied with one short narrative, from which the moral
naturally flows, and with which it is intimately associated.
"'Tis the simple manner," says Dodsley, 2 "in which the morals of
Aesop are interwoven with his fables that distinguishes him, and
gives him the preference over all other mythologists. His
'Mountain delivered of a Mouse,' produces the moral of his fable
in ridicule of pompous pretenders; and his Crow, when she drops
her cheese, lets fall, as it were by accident, the strongest
admonition against the power of flattery. There is no need of a
separate sentence to explain it; no possibility of impressing it
deeper, by that load we too often see of accumulated
reflections." 3 An equal amount of praise is due for the
consistency with which the characters of the animals,
fictitiously introduced, are marked. While they are made to
depict the motives and passions of men, they retain, in an
eminent degree, their own special features of craft or counsel,
of cowardice or courage, of generosity or rapacity.
These terms of praise, it must be confessed, cannot be bestowed
on all the fables in this collection. Many of them lack that
unity of design, that close connection of the moral with the
narrative, that wise choice in the introduction of the animals,
which constitute the charm and excellency of true Aesopian fable.
This inferiority of some to others is sufficiently accounted for
in the history of the origin and descent of these fables. The
great bulk of them are not the immediate work of Aesop. Many are
obtained from ancient authors prior to the time in which he
lived. Thus, the fable of the "Hawk and the Nightingale" is
related by Hesiod; 4 the "Eagle wounded by an Arrow, winged with
its own Feathers," by Aeschylus; 5 the "Fox avenging his wrongs
on the Eagle," by Archilochus. 6 Many of them again are of later
origin, and are to be traced to the monks of the middle ages: and
yet this collection, though thus made up of fables both earlier
and later than the era of Aesop, rightfully bears his name,
because he composed so large a number (all framed in the same
mould, and conformed to the same fashion, and stamped with the
same lineaments, image, and superscription) as to secure to
himself the right to be considered the father of Greek fables,
and the founder of this class of writing, which has ever since
borne his name, and has secured for him, through all succeeding
ages, the position of the first of moralists.7
The fables were in the first instance only narrated by Aesop, and
for a long time were handed down by the uncertain channel of oral
tradition. Socrates is mentioned by Plato 8 as having employed
his time while in prison, awaiting the return of the sacred ship
from Delphos which was to be the signal of his death, in turning
some of these fables into verse, but he thus versified only such
as he remembered. Demetrius Phalereus, a philosopher at Athens
about 300 B.C., is said to have made the first collection of
these fables. Phaedrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent
misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honors of a
freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about
the commencement of the Christian era. Aphthonius, a rhetorician
of Antioch, A.D. 315, wrote a treatise on, and converted into
Latin prose, some of these fables. This translation is the more
worthy of notice, as it illustrates a custom of common use, both
in these and in later times. The rhetoricians and philosophers
were accustomed to give the Fables of Aesop as an exercise to
their scholars, not only inviting them to discuss the moral of
the tale, but also to practice and to perfect themselves thereby
in style and rules of grammar, by making for themselves new and
various versions of the fables. Ausonius, 9 the friend of the
Emperor Valentinian, and the latest poet of eminence in the
Western Empire, has handed down some of these fables in verse,
which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name,
translated into prose. Avienus, also a contemporary of Ausonius,
put some of these fables into Latin elegiacs, which are given by
Nevelet (in a book we shall refer to hereafter), and are
occasionally incorporated with the editions of Phaedrus.
Seven centuries elapsed before the next notice is found of the
Fables of Aesop. During this long period these fables seem to
have suffered an eclipse, to have disappeared and to have been
forgotten; and it is at the commencement of the fourteenth
century, when the Byzantine emperors were the great patrons of
learning, and amidst the splendors of an Asiatic court, that we
next find honors paid to the name and memory of Aesop. Maximus
Planudes, a learned monk of Constantinople, made a collection of
about a hundred and fifty of these fables. Little is known of
his history. Planudes, however, was no mere recluse, shut up in
his monastery. He took an active part in public affairs. In
1327 A.D. he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Venice by the
Emperor Andronicus the Elder. This brought him into immediate
contact with the Western Patriarch, whose interests he henceforth
advocated with so much zeal as to bring on him suspicion and
persecution from the rulers of the Eastern Church. Planudes has
been exposed to a two-fold accusation. He is charged on the one
hand with having had before him a copy of Babrias (to whom we
shall have occasion to refer at greater length in the end of this
Preface), and to have had the bad taste "to transpose," or to
turn his poetical version into prose: and he is asserted, on the
other hand, never to have seen the Fables of Aesop at all, but to
have himself invented and made the fables which he palmed off
under the name of the famous Greek fabulist. The truth lies
between these two extremes. Planudes may have invented some few
fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but
there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove
that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Aesop,
although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as
contained in the various translations and disquisitional
exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers. His collection
is interesting and important, not only as the parent source or
foundation of the earlier printed versions of Aesop, but as the
direct channel of attracting to these fables the attention of the
learned.
The eventual re-introduction, however, of these Fables of Aesop
to their high place in the general literature of Christendom, is
to be looked for in the West rather than in the East. The
calamities gradually thickening round the Eastern Empire, and the
fall of Constantinople, 1453 A.D. combined with other events to
promote the rapid restoration of learning in Italy; and with that
recovery of learning the revival of an interest in the Fables of
Aesop is closely identified. These fables, indeed, were among
the first writings of an earlier antiquity that attracted
attention. They took their place beside the Holy Scriptures and
the ancient classic authors, in the minds of the great students
of that day. Lorenzo Valla, one of the most famous promoters of
Italian learning, not only translated into Latin the Iliad of
Homer and the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, but also the
Fables of Aesop.
These fables, again, were among the books brought into an
extended circulation by the agency of the printing press. Bonus
Accursius, as early as 1475-1480, printed the collection of these
fables, made by Planudes, which, within five years afterwards,
Caxton translated into English, and printed at his press in West-
minster Abbey, 1485. 10 It must be mentioned also that the
learning of this age has left permanent traces of its influence
on these fables, ll by causing the interpolation with them of
some of those amusing stories which were so frequently introduced
into the public discourses of the great preachers of those days,
and of which specimens are yet to be found in the extant sermons
of Jean Raulin, Meffreth, and Gabriel Barlette. 12 The
publication of this era which most probably has influenced these
fables, is the "Liber Facetiarum," l3 a book consisting of a
hundred jests and stories, by the celebrated Poggio Bracciolini,
published A.D. 1471, from which the two fables of the "Miller,
his Son, and the Ass," and the "Fox and the Woodcutter," are
undoubtedly selected.
The knowledge of these fables rapidly spread from Italy into
Germany, and their popularity was increased by the favor and
sanction given to them by the great fathers of the Reformation,
who frequently used them as vehicles for satire and protest
against the tricks and abuses of the Romish ecclesiastics. The
zealous and renowned Camerarius, who took an active part in the
preparation of the Confession of Augsburgh, found time, amidst
his numerous avocations, to prepare a version for the students in
the university of Tubingen, in which he was a professor. Martin
Luther translated twenty of these fables, and was urged by
Melancthon to complete the whole; while Gottfried Arnold, the
celebrated Lutheran theologian, and librarian to Frederick I,
king of Prussia, mentions that the great Reformer valued the
Fables of Aesop next after the Holy Scriptures. In 1546 A.D.
the second printed edition of the collection of the Fables made
by Planudes, was issued from the printing-press of Robert
Stephens, in which were inserted some additional fables from a
MS. in the Bibliotheque du Roy at Paris.
The greatest advance, however, towards a re-introduction of the
Fables of Aesop to a place in the literature of the world, was
made in the early part of the seventeenth century. In the year
1610, a learned Swiss, Isaac Nicholas Nevelet, sent forth the
third printed edition of these fables, in a work entitled
"Mythologia Aesopica." This was a noble effort to do honor to
the great fabulist, and was the most perfect collection of
Aesopian fables ever yet published. It consisted, in addition to
the collection of fables given by Planudes and reprinted in the
various earlier editions, of one hundred and thirty-six new
fables (never before published) from MSS. in the Library of the
Vatican, of forty fables attributed to Aphthonius, and of
forty-three from Babrias. It also contained the Latin versions
of the same fables by Phaedrus, Avienus, and other authors. This
volume of Nevelet forms a complete "Corpus Fabularum
Aesopicarum;" and to his labors Aesop owes his restoration to
universal favor as one of the wise moralists and great teachers
of mankind. During the interval of three centuries which has
elapsed since the publication of this volume of Nevelet's, no
book, with the exception of the Holy Scriptures, has had a wider
circulation than Aesop's Fables. They have been translated into
the greater number of the languages both of Europe and of the
East, and have been read, and will be read, for generations,
alike by Jew, Heathen, Mohammedan, and Christian. They are, at
the present time, not only engrafted into the literature of the
civilized world, but are familiar as household words in the
common intercourse and daily conversation of the inhabitants of
all countries.
This collection of Nevelet's is the great culminating point in
the history of the revival of the fame and reputation of Aesopian
Fables. It is remarkable, also, as containing in its preface the
germ of an idea, which has been since proved to have been correct
by a strange chain of circumstances. Nevelet intimates an
opinion, that a writer named Babrias would be found to be the
veritable author of the existing form of Aesopian Fables. This
intimation has since given rise to a series of inquiries, the
knowledge of which is necessary, in the present day, to a full
understanding of the true position of Aesop in connection with
the writings that bear his name.
The history of Babrias is so strange and interesting, that it
might not unfitly be enumerated among the curiosities of
literature. He is generally supposed to have been a Greek of
Asia Minor, of one of the Ionic Colonies, but the exact period in
which he lived and wrote is yet unsettled. He is placed, by one
critic, l4 as far back as the institution of the Achaian League,
B.C. 250; by another as late as the Emperor Severus, who died
A.D. 235; while others make him a contemporary with Phaedrus in
the time of Augustus. At whatever time he wrote his version of
Aesop, by some strange accident it seems to have entirely
disappeared, and to have been lost sight of. His name is
mentioned by Avienus; by Suidas, a celebrated critic, at the
close of the eleventh century, who gives in his lexicon several
isolated verses of his version of the fables; and by John
Tzetzes, a grammarian and poet of Constantinople, who lived
during the latter half of the twelfth century. Nevelet, in the
preface to the volume which we have described, points out that
the Fables of Planudes could not be the work of Aesop, as they
contain a reference in two places to "Holy monks," and give a
verse from the Epistle of St. James as an "Epimith" to one of
the fables, and suggests Babrias as their author. Francis
Vavassor, 15 a learned French jesuit, entered at greater length
on this subject, and produced further proofs from internal
evidence, from the use of the word Piraeus in describing the
harbour of Athens, a name which was not given till two hundred
years after Aesop, and from the introduction of other modern
words, that many of these fables must have been at least
committed to writing posterior to the time of Aesop, and more
boldly suggests Babrias as their author or collector. 16 These
various references to Babrias induced Dr. Plichard Bentley, at
the close of the seventeenth century, to examine more minutely
the existing versions of Aesop's Fables, and he maintained that
many of them could, with a slight change of words, be resolved
into the Scazonic l7 iambics, in which Babrias is known to have
written: and, with a greater freedom than the evidence then
justified, he put forth, in behalf of Babrias, a claim to the
exclusive authorship of these fables. Such a seemingly
extravagant theory, thus roundly asserted, excited much
opposition. Dr. Bentley l8 met with an able antagonist in a
member of the University of Oxford, the Hon. Mr. Charles Boyle,
19 afterwards Earl of Orrery. Their letters and disputations on
this subject, enlivened on both sides with much wit and learning,
will ever bear a conspicuous place in the literary history of the
seventeenth century. The arguments of Dr. Bentley were yet
further defended a few years later by Mr. Thomas Tyrwhitt, a
well-read scholar, who gave up high civil distinctions that he
might devote himself the more unreservedly to literary pursuits.
Mr. Tyrwhitt published, A.D. 1776, a Dissertation on Babrias,
and a collection of his fables in choliambic meter found in a MS.
in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Francesco de Furia, a learned
Italian, contributed further testimony to the correctness of the
supposition that Babrias had made a veritable collection of
fables by printing from a MS. contained in the Vatican library
several fables never before published. In the year 1844,
however, new and unexpected light was thrown upon this subject.
A veritable copy of Babrias was found in a manner as singular as
were the MSS. of Quinctilian's Institutes, and of Cicero's
Orations by Poggio in the monastery of St. Gall A.D. 1416. M.
Menoides, at the suggestion of M. Villemain, Minister of Public
Instruction to King Louis Philippe, had been entrusted with a
commission to search for ancient MSS., and in carrying out his
instructions he found a MS. at the convent of St. Laura, on
Mount Athos, which proved to be a copy of the long suspected and
wished-for choliambic version of Babrias. This MS. was found to
be divided into two books, the one containing a hundred and
twenty-five, and the other ninety-five fables. This discovery
attracted very general attention, not only as confirming, in a
singular manner, the conjectures so boldly made by a long chain
of critics, but as bringing to light valuable literary treasures
tending to establish the reputation, and to confirm the antiquity
and authenticity of the great mass of Aesopian Fable. The Fables
thus recovered were soon published. They found a most worthy
editor in the late distinguished Sir George Cornewall Lewis, and
a translator equally qualified for his task, in the Reverend
James Davies, M.A., sometime a scholar of Lincoln College,
Oxford, and himself a relation of their English editor. Thus,
after an eclipse of many centuries, Babrias shines out as the
earliest, and most reliable collector of veritable Aesopian
Fables.
The following are the sources from which the present translation
has been prepared: Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae. George Cornewall
Lewis. Oxford, 1846.
Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae. E codice manuscripto partem secundam
edidit. George Cornewall Lewis. London: Parker, 1857.
Mythologica Aesopica. Opera et studia Isaaci Nicholai Neveleti.
Frankfort, 1610.
Fabulae Aesopiacae, quales ante Planudem ferebantur cura et
studio Francisci de Furia. Lipsiae, 1810.
??????????????. Ex recognitione Caroli Halmii. Lipsiae, Phaedri
Fabulae Esopiae. Delphin Classics. 1822.
GEORGE FYLER TOWNSEND
FOOTNOTES
1 A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, by K. O.
Mueller. Vol. i, p. l9l. London, Parker, 1858.
2 Select Fables of Aesop, and other Fabulists. In three books,
translated by Robert Dodsley, accompanied with a selection of
notes, and an Essay on Fable. Birmingham, 1864. P. 60.
3 Some of these fables had, no doubt, in the first instance, a
primary and private interpretation. On the first occasion of
their being composed they were intended to refer to some passing
event, or to some individual acts of wrong-doing. Thus, the
fables of the "Eagle and the Fox" and of the "Fox and Monkey' are
supposed to have been written by Archilochus, to avenge the
injuries done him by Lycambes. So also the fables of the
"Swollen Fox" and of the "Frogs asking a King" were spoken by
Aesop for the immediate purpose of reconciling the inhabitants of
Samos and Athens to their respective rulers, Periander and
Pisistratus; while the fable of the "Horse and Stag" was composed
to caution the inhabitants of Himera against granting a bodyguard
to Phalaris. In a similar manner, the fable from Phaedrus, the
"Marriage of the Sun," is supposed to have reference to the
contemplated union of Livia, the daughter of Drusus, with Sejanus
the favourite, and minister of Trajan. These fables, however,
though thus originating in special events, and designed at first
to meet special circumstances, are so admirably constructed as to
be fraught with lessons of general utility, and of universal
application.
4 Hesiod. Opera et Dies, verse 202.
5 Aeschylus. Fragment of the Myrmidons. Aeschylus speaks of
this fable as existing before his day. See Scholiast on the Aves
of Aristophanes, line 808.
6 Fragment. 38, ed. Gaisford. See also Mueller's History of
the Literature of Ancient Greece, vol. i. pp. 190-193.
7 M. Bayle has well put this in his account of Aesop. "Il n'y a
point d'apparence que les fables qui portent aujourd'hui son nom
soient les memes qu'il avait faites; elles viennent bien de lui
pour la plupart, quant a la matiere et la pensee; mais les
paroles sont d'un autre." And again, "C'est donc a Hesiode, que
j'aimerais mieux attribuer la gloire de l'invention; mais sans
doute il laissa la chose tres imparfaite. Esope la perfectionne
si heureusement, qu'on l'a regarde comme le vrai pere de cette
sorte de production." M. Bayle. Dictionnaire Historique.
8 Plato in Ph2done.
9 Apologos en! misit tibi
Ab usque Rheni limite
Ausonius nomen Italum
Praeceptor Augusti tui
Aesopiam trimetriam;
Quam vertit exili stylo
Pedestre concinnans opus
Fandi Titianus artifex.
Ausonii Epistola, xvi. 75-80.
10 Both these publications are in the British Museum, and are
placed in the library in cases under glass, for the inspection of
the curious.
ll Fables may possibly have been not entirely unknown to the
mediaeval scholars. There are two celebrated works which might
by some be classed amongst works of this description. The one is
the "Speculum Sapientiae," attributed to St. Cyril, Archbishop
of Jerusalem, but of a considerably later origin, and existing
only in Latin. It is divided into four books, and consists of
long conversations conducted by fictitious characters under the
figures the beasts of the field and forest, and aimed at the
rebuke of particular classes of men, the boastful, the proud, the
luxurious, the wrathful, &c. None of the stories are precisely
those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and
unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by
the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist. The exact
title of the book is this: "Speculum Sapientiae, B. Cyrilli
Episcopi: alias quadripartitus apologeticus vocatus, in cujus
quidem proverbiis omnis et totius sapientiae speculum claret et
feliciter incipit." The other is a larger work in two volumes,
published in the fourteenth century by Caesar Heisterbach, a
Cistercian monk, under the title of "Dialogus Miraculorum,"
reprinted in 1851. This work consists of conversations in which
many stories are interwoven on all kinds of subjects. It has no
correspondence with the pure Aesopian fable.
12 Post-medieval Preachers, by S. Baring-Gould. Rivingtons,
1865.
13 For an account of this work see the Life of Poggio
Bracciolini, by the Rev. William Shepherd. Liverpool. 1801.
14 Professor Theodore Bergh. See Classical Museum, No. viii.
July, 1849.
15 Vavassor's treatise, entitled "De Ludicra Dictione" was
written A.D. 1658, at the request of the celebrated M. Balzac
(though published after his death), for the purpose of showing
that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and
D'Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction
from the ancient classic writers. Francisci Vavassoris opera
omnia. Amsterdam. 1709.
16 The claims of Babrias also found a warm advocate in the
learned Frenchman, M. Bayle, who, in his admirable dictionary,
(Dictionnaire Historique et Critique de Pierre Bayle. Paris,
1820,) gives additional arguments in confirmation of the opinions
of his learned predecessors, Nevelet and Vavassor.
17 Scazonic, or halting, iambics; a choliambic (a lame, halting
iambic) differs from the iambic Senarius in always having a
spondee or trichee for its last foot; the fifth foot, to avoid
shortness of meter, being generally an iambic. See Fables of
Babrias, translated by Rev. James Davies. Lockwood, 1860.
Preface, p. 27.
18 See Dr. Bentley's Dissertations upon the Epistles of
Phalaris.
19 Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and
Fables of Aesop examined. By the Honorable Charles Boyle.
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Lewis Carroll
THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0
CHAPTER I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'
thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,
for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether
the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble
of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White
Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice
think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to
itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought
it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have
wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural);
but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-
POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to
her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never
before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the
field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop
down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once
considering how in the world she was to get out again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,
and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a
moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself
falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she
had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to
wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look
down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to
see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and
noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves;
here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She
took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was
labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it
was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing
somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she
fell past it.
`Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I
shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll
all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it,
even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely
true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end! `I
wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud.
`I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let
me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for,
you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her
lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good
opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to
listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,
that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude
or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was,
or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to
say.)
Presently she began again. `I wonder if I shall fall right
THROUGH the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the
people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I
think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this
time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) `--but I shall
have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.
Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried
to curtsey as she spoke--fancy CURTSEYING as you're falling
through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) `And what
an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll
never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.'
Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon
began talking again. `Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I
should think!' (Dinah was the cat.) `I hope they'll remember
her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were
down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but
you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.
But do cats eat bats, I wonder?' And here Alice began to get
rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of
way, `Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, `Do
bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either
question, it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt
that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she
was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very
earnestly, `Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a
bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of
sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a
moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her
was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in
sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost:
away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it
say, as it turned a corner, `Oh my ears and whiskers, how late
it's getting!' She was close behind it when she turned the
corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found
herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps
hanging from the roof.
There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked;
and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the
other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle,
wondering how she was ever to get out again.
Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of
solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key,
and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the
doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or
the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of
them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low
curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little
door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key
in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small
passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and
looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.
How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about
among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but
she could not even get her head though the doorway; `and even if
my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, `it would be of
very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish
I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only
know how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things
had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few
things indeed were really impossible.
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she
went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on
it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like
telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which
certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck
of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME'
beautifully printed on it in large letters.
It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little
Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry. `No, I'll look
first,' she said, `and see whether it's marked "poison" or not';
for she had read several nice little histories about children who
had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant
things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules
their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker
will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your
finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had
never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked
`poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or
later.
However, this bottle was NOT marked `poison,' so Alice ventured
to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort
of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast
turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished
it off.
* * * * * * *
* * * * * *
* * * * * * *
`What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be shutting up
like a telescope.'
And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and
her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right
size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.
First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was
going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about
this; `for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, `in my
going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be
like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is
like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember
ever having seen such a thing.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided
on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice!
when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the
little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it,
she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it
quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb
up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery;
and when she had tired herself out with trying,
the poor little thing sat down and cried.
`Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to
herself, rather sharply; `I advise you to leave off this minute!'
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very
seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so
severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered
trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game
of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious
child was very fond of pretending to be two people. `But it's no
use now,' thought poor Alice, `to pretend to be two people! Why,
there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable
person!'
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under
the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on
which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.
`Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow larger,
I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep
under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I
don't care which happens!'
She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which
way? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to
feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to
find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally
happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the
way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen,
that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the
common way.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
* * * * * * *
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CHAPTER II
The Pool of Tears
`Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much
surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good
English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that
ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her
feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so
far off). `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on
your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure _I_ shan't
be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself
about you: you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be
kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won't walk the
way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of
boots every Christmas.'
And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it.
`They must go by the carrier,' she thought; `and how funny it'll
seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the
directions will look!
ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.
HEARTHRUG,
NEAR THE FENDER,
(WITH ALICE'S LOVE).
Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in
fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took
up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one
side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get
through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to
cry again.
`You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, `a great
girl like you,' (she might well say this), `to go on crying in
this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!' But she went on all
the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool
all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the
hall.
After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the
distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a
pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the
other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to
himself as he came, `Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she
be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt so desperate
that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit
came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, `If you please,
sir--' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid
gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard
as he could go.
Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very
hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking:
`Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday
things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in
the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this
morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little
different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in
the world am I? Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!' And she began
thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age
as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of
them.
`I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, `for her hair goes in such
long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm
sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she,
oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I,
and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the
things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve,
and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear!
I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, the
Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography.
London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,
and Rome--no, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain! I must have been
changed for Mabel! I'll try and say "How doth the little--"'
and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons,
and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and
strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:--
`How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
`How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!'
`I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and
her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, `I must be Mabel
after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little
house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so
many lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm
Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their
heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look
up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I
like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down
here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a
sudden burst of tears, `I do wish they WOULD put their heads
down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was
surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little
white kid gloves while she was talking. `How CAN I have done
that?' she thought. `I must be growing small again.' She got up
and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that,
as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high,
and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the
cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it
hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
`That WAS a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at
the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in
existence; `and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed
back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was shut
again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as
before, `and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor child,
`for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare
it's too bad, that it is!'
As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another
moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first
idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, `and in that
case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself. (Alice had
been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general
conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find
a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in
the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and
behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that
she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine
feet high.
`I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about,
trying to find her way out. `I shall be punished for it now, I
suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That WILL be a queer
thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.'
Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a
little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at
first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then
she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that
it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
`Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, `to speak to this
mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should
think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no harm in
trying.' So she began: `O Mouse, do you know the way out of
this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!'
(Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse:
she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having
seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, `A mouse--of a mouse--to a
mouse--a mouse--O mouse!' The Mouse looked at her rather
inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little
eyes, but it said nothing.
`Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; `I
daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the
Conqueror.' (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had
no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she
began again: `Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in
her French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the
water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright. `Oh, I beg
your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the
poor animal's feelings. `I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'
`Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate
voice. `Would YOU like cats if you were me?'
`Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: `don't be
angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah:
I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her.
She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself,
as she swam lazily about in the pool, `and she sits purring so
nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and
she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such a capital
one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice again,
for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt
certain it must be really offended. `We won't talk about her any
more if you'd rather not.'
`We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end
of his tail. `As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family
always HATED cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear
the name again!'
`I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the
subject of conversation. `Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?'
The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: `There is
such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!
A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly
brown hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and
it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I
can't remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, you
know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds!
He says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a
sorrowful tone, `I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the
Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and
making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.
So she called softly after it, `Mouse dear! Do come back
again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't
like them!' When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam
slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice
thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, `Let us get to
the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll
understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded
with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a
Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious
creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the
shore.
CHAPTER III
A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the
bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their
fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and
uncomfortable.
The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they
had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed
quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with
them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had
quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky,
and would only say, `I am older than you, and must know better';
and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was,
and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no
more to be said.
At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among
them, called out, `Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL
soon make you dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large
ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes
anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad
cold if she did not get dry very soon.
`Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, `are you all ready?
This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please!
"William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was
soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been
of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and
Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'
`Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.
`I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very
politely: `Did you speak?'
`Not I!' said the Lory hastily.
`I thought you did,' said the Mouse. `--I proceed. "Edwin and
Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him:
and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found
it advisable--"'
`Found WHAT?' said the Duck.
`Found IT,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: `of course you
know what "it" means.'
`I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said
the Duck: `it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is,
what did the archbishop find?'
The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on,
`"--found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William
and offer him the crown. William's conduct at first was
moderate. But the insolence of his Normans--" How are you
getting on now, my dear?' it continued, turning to Alice as it
spoke.
`As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone: `it doesn't
seem to dry me at all.'
`In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, `I
move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more
energetic remedies--'
`Speak English!' said the Eaglet. `I don't know the meaning of
half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do
either!' And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile:
some of the other birds tittered audibly.
`What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone,
`was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'
`What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much
to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY
ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.
`Why,' said the Dodo, `the best way to explain it is to do it.'
(And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter
day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (`the
exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party
were placed along the course, here and there. There was no `One,
two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked,
and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know
when the race was over. However, when they had been running half
an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called
out `The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting,
and asking, `But who has won?'
This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of
thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon
its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare,
in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At
last the Dodo said, `EVERYBODY has won, and all must have
prizes.'
`But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices
asked.
`Why, SHE, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with
one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her,
calling out in a confused way, `Prizes! Prizes!'
Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand
in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt
water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.
There was exactly one a-piece all round.
`But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the Mouse.
`Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. `What else have
you got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.
`Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.
`Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.
Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo
solemnly presented the thimble, saying `We beg your acceptance of
this elegant thimble'; and, when it had finished this short
speech, they all cheered.
Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked
so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not
think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble,
looking as solemn as she could.
The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise
and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not
taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on
the back. However, it was over at last, and they sat down again
in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.
`You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice,
`and why it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half
afraid that it would be offended again.
`Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to
Alice, and sighing.
`It IS a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with
wonder at the Mouse's tail; `but why do you call it sad?' And
she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so
that her idea of the tale was something like this:--
`Fury said to a
mouse, That he
met in the
house,
"Let us
both go to
law: I will
prosecute
YOU. --Come,
I'll take no
denial; We
must have a
trial: For
really this
morning I've
nothing
to do."
Said the
mouse to the
cur, "Such
a trial,
dear Sir,
With
no jury
or judge,
would be
wasting
our
breath."
"I'll be
judge, I'll
be jury,"
Said
cunning
old Fury:
"I'll
try the
whole
cause,
and
condemn
you
to
death."'
`You are not attending!' said the Mouse to Alice severely.
`What are you thinking of?'
`I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly: `you had got to
the fifth bend, I think?'
`I had NOT!' cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily.
`A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and
looking anxiously about her. `Oh, do let me help to undo it!'
`I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the Mouse, getting up
and walking away. `You insult me by talking such nonsense!'
`I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor Alice. `But you're so easily
offended, you know!'
The Mouse only growled in reply.
`Please come back and finish your story!' Alice called after
it; and the others all joined in chorus, `Yes, please do!' but
the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little
quicker.
`What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as soon as it
was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of
saying to her daughter `Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you
never to lose YOUR temper!' `Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the
young Crab, a little snappishly. `You're enough to try the
patience of an oyster!'
`I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud,
addressing nobody in particular. `She'd soon fetch it back!'
`And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?'
said the Lory.
Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about
her pet: `Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for
catching mice you can't think! And oh, I wish you could see her
after the birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look
at it!'
This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party.
Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began
wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, `I really must be
getting home; the night-air doesn't suit my throat!' and a Canary
called out in a trembling voice to its children, `Come away, my
dears! It's high time you were all in bed!' On various pretexts
they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.
`I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!' she said to herself in a
melancholy tone. `Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I'm
sure she's the best cat in the world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I
wonder if I shall ever see you any more!' And here poor Alice
began to cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited.
In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of
footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping
that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to
finish his story.
CHAPTER IV
The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and
looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something;
and she heard it muttering to itself `The Duchess! The Duchess!
Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me
executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where CAN I have
dropped them, I wonder?' Alice guessed in a moment that it was
looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she
very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were
nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to have changed since her
swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and
the little door, had vanished completely.
Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about,
and called out to her in an angry tone, `Why, Mary Ann, what ARE
you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of
gloves and a fan! Quick, now!' And Alice was so much frightened
that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without
trying to explain the mistake it had made.
`He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as she ran.
`How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am! But I'd
better take him his fan and gloves--that is, if I can find them.'
As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door
of which was a bright brass plate with the name `W. RABBIT'
engraved upon it. She went in without knocking, and hurried
upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann,
and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and
gloves.
`How queer it seems,' Alice said to herself, `to be going
messages for a rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be sending me on
messages next!' And she began fancying the sort of thing that
would happen: `"Miss Alice! Come here directly, and get ready
for your walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to see
that the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't think,' Alice went
on, `that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering
people about like that!'
By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with
a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two
or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and
a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when
her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-
glass. There was no label this time with the words `DRINK ME,'
but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. `I know
SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,' she said to herself,
`whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see what this
bottle does. I do hope it'll make me grow large again, for
really I'm quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!'
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected:
before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing
against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being
broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself
`That's quite enough--I hope I shan't grow any more--As it is, I
can't get out at the door--I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so
much!'
Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and
growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in
another minute there was not even room for this, and she tried
the effect of lying down with one elbow against the door, and the
other arm curled round her head. Still she went on growing, and,
as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one
foot up the chimney, and said to herself `Now I can do no more,
whatever happens. What WILL become of me?'
Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full
effect, and she grew no larger: still it was very uncomfortable,
and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting
out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.
`It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, `when one
wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about
by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that
rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know,
this sort of life! I do wonder what CAN have happened to me!
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing
never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There
ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when
I grow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now,' she added in a
sorrowful tone; `at least there's no room to grow up any more
HERE.'
`But then,' thought Alice, `shall I NEVER get any older than I
am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--
but then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't like THAT!'
`Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself. `How can you
learn lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for YOU, and no
room at all for any lesson-books!'
And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other,
and making quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few
minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen.
`Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. `Fetch me my gloves
this moment!' Then came a little pattering of feet on the
stairs. Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and
she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she
was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no
reason to be afraid of it.
Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it;
but, as the door opened inwards, and Alice's elbow was pressed
hard against it, that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it
say to itself `Then I'll go round and get in at the window.'
`THAT you won't' thought Alice, and, after waiting till she
fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly
spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not
get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall,
and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was
just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something
of the sort.
Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit's--`Pat! Pat! Where are
you?' And then a voice she had never heard before, `Sure then
I'm here! Digging for apples, yer honour!'
`Digging for apples, indeed!' said the Rabbit angrily. `Here!
Come and help me out of THIS!' (Sounds of more broken glass.)
`Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'
`Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' (He pronounced it `arrum.')
`An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it
fills the whole window!'
`Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that.'
`Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and take it
away!'
There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear
whispers now and then; such as, `Sure, I don't like it, yer
honour, at all, at all!' `Do as I tell you, you coward!' and at
last she spread out her hand again, and made another snatch in
the air. This time there were TWO little shrieks, and more
sounds of broken glass. `What a number of cucumber-frames there
must be!' thought Alice. `I wonder what they'll do next! As for
pulling me out of the window, I only wish they COULD! I'm sure I
don't want to stay in here any longer!'
She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at
last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a
good many voices all talking together: she made out the words:
`Where's the other ladder?--Why, I hadn't to bring but one;
Bill's got the other--Bill! fetch it here, lad!--Here, put 'em up
at this corner--No, tie 'em together first--they don't reach half
high enough yet--Oh! they'll do well enough; don't be particular--
Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope--Will the roof bear?--Mind
that loose slate--Oh, it's coming down! Heads below!' (a loud
crash)--`Now, who did that?--It was Bill, I fancy--Who's to go
down the chimney?--Nay, I shan't! YOU do it!--That I won't,
then!--Bill's to go down--Here, Bill! the master says you're to
go down the chimney!'
`Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?' said
Alice to herself. `Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill!
I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal: this fireplace is
narrow, to be sure; but I THINK I can kick a little!'
She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and
waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess of what
sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close
above her: then, saying to herself `This is Bill,' she gave one
sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.
The first thing she heard was a general chorus of `There goes
Bill!' then the Rabbit's voice along--`Catch him, you by the
hedge!' then silence, and then another confusion of voices--`Hold
up his head--Brandy now--Don't choke him--How was it, old fellow?
What happened to you? Tell us all about it!'
Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, (`That's Bill,'
thought Alice,) `Well, I hardly know--No more, thank ye; I'm
better now--but I'm a deal too flustered to tell you--all I know
is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes
like a sky-rocket!'
`So you did, old fellow!' said the others.
`We must burn the house down!' said the Rabbit's voice; and
Alice called out as loud as she could, `If you do. I'll set
Dinah at you!'
There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to
herself, `I wonder what they WILL do next! If they had any
sense, they'd take the roof off.' After a minute or two, they
began moving about again, and Alice heard the Rabbit say, `A
barrowful will do, to begin with.'
`A barrowful of WHAT?' thought Alice; but she had not long to
doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came
rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face.
`I'll put a stop to this,' she said to herself, and shouted out,
`You'd better not do that again!' which produced another dead
silence.
Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all
turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright
idea came into her head. `If I eat one of these cakes,' she
thought, `it's sure to make SOME change in my size; and as it
can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I
suppose.'
So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find
that she began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small
enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and
found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.
The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by
two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle.
They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared; but she
ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a
thick wood.
`The first thing I've got to do,' said Alice to herself, as she
wandered about in the wood, `is to grow to my right size again;
and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden.
I think that will be the best plan.'
It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and
simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the
smallest idea how to set about it; and while she was peering
about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over
her head made her look up in a great hurry.
An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round
eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.
`Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried
hard to whistle to it; but she was terribly frightened all the
time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it
would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of
stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped
into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight,
and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice
dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run
over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy
made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in
its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very
like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every
moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle
again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the
stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long
way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat
down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its
mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape;
so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out
of breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the
distance.
`And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said Alice, as she
leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself
with one of the leaves: `I should have liked teaching it tricks
very much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it! Oh
dear! I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again! Let
me see--how IS it to be managed? I suppose I ought to eat or
drink something or other; but the great question is, what?'
The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round
her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see
anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under
the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her,
about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under
it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her
that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it.
She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of
the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large
caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded,
quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice
of her or of anything else.
CHAPTER V
Advice from a Caterpillar
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in
silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its
mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
`Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice
replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--
at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think
I must have been changed several times since then.'
`What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly.
`Explain yourself!'
`I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, `because
I'm not myself, you see.'
`I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.
`I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very
politely, `for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and
being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
`It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
`Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; `but
when you have to turn into a chrysalis--you will some day, you
know--and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll
feel it a little queer, won't you?'
`Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.
`Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice;
`all I know is, it would feel very queer to ME.'
`You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. `Who are YOU?'
Which brought them back again to the beginning of the
conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's
making such VERY short remarks, and she drew herself up and said,
very gravely, `I think, you ought to tell me who YOU are, first.'
`Why?' said the Caterpillar.
Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not
think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in
a VERY unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.
`Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her. `I've something
important to say!'
This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back
again.
`Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.
`Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as
she could.
`No,' said the Caterpillar.
Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else
to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth
hearing. For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but
at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth
again, and said, `So you think you're changed, do you?'
`I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; `I can't remember things as
I used--and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!'
`Can't remember WHAT things?' said the Caterpillar.
`Well, I've tried to say "HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE," but it
all came different!' Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.
`Repeat, "YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,"' said the Caterpillar.
Alice folded her hands, and began:--
`You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
`And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
`In my youth,' Father William replied to his son,
`I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.'
`You are old,' said the youth, `as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
Pray, what is the reason of that?'
`In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
`I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box--
Allow me to sell you a couple?'
`You are old,' said the youth, `and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
Pray how did you manage to do it?'
`In my youth,' said his father, `I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.'
`You are old,' said the youth, `one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
What made you so awfully clever?'
`I have answered three questions, and that is enough,'
Said his father; `don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!'
`That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.
`Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; `some of the
words have got altered.'
`It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar
decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.
The Caterpillar was the first to speak.
`What size do you want to be?' it asked.
`Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied;
`only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.'
`I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar.
Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in
her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.
`Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.
`Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you
wouldn't mind,' said Alice: `three inches is such a wretched
height to be.'
`It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar
angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three
inches high).
`But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone.
And she thought of herself, `I wish the creatures wouldn't be so
easily offended!'
`You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it
put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.
This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again.
In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its
mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got
down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely
remarking as it went, `One side will make you grow taller, and
the other side will make you grow shorter.'
`One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to
herself.
`Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had
asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a
minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as
it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.
However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they
would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.
`And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a
little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment
she felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her
foot!
She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but
she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking
rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.
Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was
hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and
managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.
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`Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of
delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she
found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could
see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which
seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay
far below her.
`What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice. `And where
HAVE my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it I
can't see you?' She was moving them about as she spoke, but no
result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the
distant green leaves.
As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her
head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted
to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction,
like a serpent. She had just succeeded in curving it down into a
graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which
she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she
had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a
hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating
her violently with its wings.
`Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.
`I'm NOT a serpent!' said Alice indignantly. `Let me alone!'
`Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more
subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, `I've tried every
way, and nothing seems to suit them!'
`I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,' said
Alice.
`I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've
tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; `but
those serpents! There's no pleasing them!'
Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no
use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.
`As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the
Pigeon; `but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and
day! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'
`I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was
beginning to see its meaning.
`And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued
the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, `and just as I was
thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come
wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!'
`But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. `I'm a--I'm
a--'
`Well! WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon. `I can see you're
trying to invent something!'
`I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she
remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day.
`A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the
deepest contempt. `I've seen a good many little girls in my
time, but never ONE with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a
serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be
telling me next that you never tasted an egg!'
`I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very
truthful child; `but little girls eat eggs quite as much as
serpents do, you know.'
`I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; `but if they do, why
then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.'
This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent
for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of
adding, `You're looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough; and
what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a
serpent?'
`It matters a good deal to ME,' said Alice hastily; `but I'm
not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I shouldn't
want YOURS: I don't like them raw.'
`Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it
settled down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the
trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled
among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and
untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the
pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very
carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and
growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had
succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
It was so long since she had been anything near the right size,
that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a
few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. `Come,
there's half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes
are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to
another! However, I've got back to my right size: the next
thing is, to get into that beautiful garden--how IS that to be
done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an
open place, with a little house in it about four feet high.
`Whoever lives there,' thought Alice, `it'll never do to come
upon them THIS size: why, I should frighten them out of their
wits!' So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did
not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself
down to nine inches high.
CHAPTER VI
Pig and Pepper
For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and
wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came
running out of the wood--(she considered him to be a footman
because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only,
she would have called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door
with his knuckles. It was opened by another footman in livery,
with a round face, and large eyes like a frog; and both footmen,
Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their
heads. She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and
crept a little way out of the wood to listen.
The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great
letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to
the other, saying, in a solemn tone, `For the Duchess. An
invitation from the Queen to play croquet.' The Frog-Footman
repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the
words a little, `From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess
to play croquet.'
Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled
together.
Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into
the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped
out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the
ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.
Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.
`There's no sort of use in knocking,' said the Footman, `and
that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the
door as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise
inside, no one could possibly hear you.' And certainly there was
a most extraordinary noise going on within--a constant howling
and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish
or kettle had been broken to pieces.
`Please, then,' said Alice, `how am I to get in?'
`There might be some sense in your knocking,' the Footman went
on without attending to her, `if we had the door between us. For
instance, if you were INSIDE, you might knock, and I could let
you out, you know.' He was looking up into the sky all the time
he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil. `But
perhaps he can't help it,' she said to herself; `his eyes are so
VERY nearly at the top of his head. But at any rate he might
answer questions.--How am I to get in?' she repeated, aloud.
`I shall sit here,' the Footman remarked, `till tomorrow--'
At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate
came skimming out, straight at the Footman's head: it just
grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees
behind him.
`--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the same tone,
exactly as if nothing had happened.
`How am I to get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder tone.
`ARE you to get in at all?' said the Footman. `That's the
first question, you know.'
It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so.
`It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, `the way all the
creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!'
The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for
repeating his remark, with variations. `I shall sit here,' he
said, `on and off, for days and days.'
`But what am I to do?' said Alice.
`Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began whistling.
`Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice desperately:
`he's perfectly idiotic!' And she opened the door and went in.
The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of
smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a
three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was
leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to
be full of soup.
`There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to
herself, as well as she could for sneezing.
There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the
Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was
sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause. The
only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook,
and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from
ear to ear.
`Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for
she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to
speak first, `why your cat grins like that?'
`It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, `and that's why. Pig!'
She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice
quite jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed
to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on
again:--
`I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I
didn't know that cats COULD grin.'
`They all can,' said the Duchess; `and most of 'em do.'
`I don't know of any that do,' Alice said very politely,
feeling quite pleased to have got into a conversation.
`You don't know much,' said the Duchess; `and that's a fact.'
Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought
it would be as well to introduce some other subject of
conversation. While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took
the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work
throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby
--the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans,
plates, and dishes. The Duchess took no notice of them even when
they hit her; and the baby was howling so much already, that it
was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.
`Oh, PLEASE mind what you're doing!' cried Alice, jumping up
and down in an agony of terror. `Oh, there goes his PRECIOUS
nose'; as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very
nearly carried it off.
`If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said in a
hoarse growl, `the world would go round a deal faster than it
does.'
`Which would NOT be an advantage,' said Alice, who felt very
glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her
knowledge. `Just think of what work it would make with the day
and night! You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn
round on its axis--'
`Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, `chop off her head!'
Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant
to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and
seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: `Twenty-four
hours, I THINK; or is it twelve? I--'
`Oh, don't bother ME,' said the Duchess; `I never could abide
figures!' And with that she began nursing her child again,
singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a
violent shake at the end of every line:
`Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.'
CHORUS.
(In which the cook and the baby joined):--
`Wow! wow! wow!'
While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept
tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing
howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words:--
`I speak severely to my boy,
I beat him when he sneezes;
For he can thoroughly enjoy
The pepper when he pleases!'
CHORUS.
`Wow! wow! wow!'
`Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the Duchess said
to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke. `I must go and
get ready to play croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of
the room. The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out,
but it just missed her.
Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-
shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all
directions, `just like a star-fish,' thought Alice. The poor
little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it,
and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again,
so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much
as she could do to hold it.
As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it,
(which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep
tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its
undoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air. `IF I
don't take this child away with me,' thought Alice, `they're sure
to kill it in a day or two: wouldn't it be murder to leave it
behind?' She said the last words out loud, and the little thing
grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time). `Don't
grunt,' said Alice; `that's not at all a proper way of expressing
yourself.'
The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into
its face to see what was the matter with it. There could be no
doubt that it had a VERY turn-up nose, much more like a snout
than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for
a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at
all. `But perhaps it was only sobbing,' she thought, and looked
into its eyes again, to see if there were any tears.
No, there were no tears. `If you're going to turn into a pig,
my dear,' said Alice, seriously, `I'll have nothing more to do
with you. Mind now!' The poor little thing sobbed again (or
grunted, it was impossible to say which), and they went on for
some while in silence.
Alice was just beginning to think to herself, `Now, what am I
to do with this creature when I get it home?' when it grunted
again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some
alarm. This time there could be NO mistake about it: it was
neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be
quite absurd for her to carry it further.
So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to
see it trot away quietly into the wood. `If it had grown up,'
she said to herself, `it would have made a dreadfully ugly child:
but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began
thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as
pigs, and was just saying to herself, `if one only knew the right
way to change them--' when she was a little startled by seeing
the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-
natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great
many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
`Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at
all know whether it would like the name: however, it only
grinned a little wider. `Come, it's pleased so far,' thought
Alice, and she went on. `Would you tell me, please, which way I
ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said
the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.
`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
`--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk
long enough.'
Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another
question. `What sort of people live about here?'
`In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round,
`lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw,
`lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here.
I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on
`And how do you know that you're mad?'
`To begin with,' said the Cat, `a dog's not mad. You grant
that?'
`I suppose so,' said Alice.
`Well, then,' the Cat went on, `you see, a dog growls when it's
angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm
pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'
`I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice.
`Call it what you like,' said the Cat. `Do you play croquet
with the Queen to-day?'
`I should like it very much,' said Alice, `but I haven't been
invited yet.'
`You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.
Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used
to queer things happening. While she was looking at the place
where it had been, it suddenly appeared again.
`By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. `I'd
nearly forgotten to ask.'
`It turned into a pig,' Alice quietly said, just as if it had
come back in a natural way.
`I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again.
Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it
did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the
direction in which the March Hare was said to live. `I've seen
hatters before,' she said to herself; `the March Hare will be
much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be
raving mad--at least not so mad as it was in March.' As she said
this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a
branch of a tree.
`Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.
`I said pig,' replied Alice; `and I wish you wouldn't keep
appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.'
`All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly,
beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin,
which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
`Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice;
`but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever
saw in my life!'
She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the
house of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house,
because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was
thatched with fur. It was so large a house, that she did not
like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the lefthand
bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high: even
then she walked up towards it rather timidly, saying to herself
`Suppose it should be raving mad after all! I almost wish I'd
gone to see the Hatter instead!'
CHAPTER VII
A Mad Tea-Party
There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house,
and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a
Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two
were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking
over its head. `Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,' thought Alice;
`only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind.'
The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded
together at one corner of it: `No room! No room!' they cried
out when they saw Alice coming. `There's PLENTY of room!' said
Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one
end of the table.
`Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it
but tea. `I don't see any wine,' she remarked.
`There isn't any,' said the March Hare.
`Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice
angrily.
`It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being
invited,' said the March Hare.
`I didn't know it was YOUR table,' said Alice; `it's laid for a
great many more than three.'
`Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been
looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was
his first speech.
`You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said
with some severity; `it's very rude.'
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all
he SAID was, `Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'
`Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. `I'm glad
they've begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,' she
added aloud.
`Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?'
said the March Hare.
`Exactly so,' said Alice.
`Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on.
`I do,' Alice hastily replied; `at least--at least I mean what
I say--that's the same thing, you know.'
`Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. `You might just
as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat
what I see"!'
`You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, `that "I
like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!'
`You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to
be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the
same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'
`It IS the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and here the
conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute,
while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and
writing-desks, which wasn't much.
The Hatter was the first to break the silence. `What day of
the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his
watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking
it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.
Alice considered a little, and then said `The fourth.'
`Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. `I told you butter
wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March
Hare.
`It was the BEST butter,' the March Hare meekly replied.
`Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter
grumbled: `you shouldn't have put it in with the bread-knife.'
The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then
he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he
could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, `It
was the BEST butter, you know.'
Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity.
`What a funny watch!' she remarked. `It tells the day of the
month, and doesn't tell what o'clock it is!'
`Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. `Does YOUR watch tell
you what year it is?'
`Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: `but that's
because it stays the same year for such a long time together.'
`Which is just the case with MINE,' said the Hatter.
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to
have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.
`I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she
could.
`The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured
a little hot tea upon its nose.
The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without
opening its eyes, `Of course, of course; just what I was going to
remark myself.'
`Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to
Alice again.
`No, I give it up,' Alice replied: `what's the answer?'
`I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter.
`Nor I,' said the March Hare.
Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better
with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that
have no answers.'
`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you
wouldn't talk about wasting IT. It's HIM.'
`I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.
`Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head
contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'
`Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to
beat time when I learn music.'
`Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. `He won't stand
beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do
almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose
it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons:
you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the
clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!'
(`I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in a
whisper.)
`That would be grand, certainly,' said Alice thoughtfully:
`but then--I shouldn't be hungry for it, you know.'
`Not at first, perhaps,' said the Hatter: `but you could keep
it to half-past one as long as you liked.'
`Is that the way YOU manage?' Alice asked.
The Hatter shook his head mournfully. `Not I!' he replied.
`We quarrelled last March--just before HE went mad, you know--'
(pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) `--it was at the
great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing
"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!"
You know the song, perhaps?'
`I've heard something like it,' said Alice.
`It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, `in this way:--
"Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle--"'
Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep
`Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--' and went on so long that
they had to pinch it to make it stop.
`Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse,' said the Hatter,
`when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, "He's murdering the
time! Off with his head!"'
`How dreadfully savage!' exclaimed Alice.
`And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone,
`he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.'
A bright idea came into Alice's head. `Is that the reason so
many tea-things are put out here?' she asked.
`Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: `it's always
tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.'
`Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.
`Exactly so,' said the Hatter: `as the things get used up.'
`But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice
ventured to ask.
`Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare interrupted,
yawning. `I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady
tells us a story.'
`I'm afraid I don't know one,' said Alice, rather alarmed at
the proposal.
`Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. `Wake up,
Dormouse!' And they pinched it on both sides at once.
The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. `I wasn't asleep,' he
said in a hoarse, feeble voice: `I heard every word you fellows
were saying.'
`Tell us a story!' said the March Hare.
`Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice.
`And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, `or you'll be asleep
again before it's done.'
`Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the
Dormouse began in a great hurry; `and their names were Elsie,
Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well--'
`What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great
interest in questions of eating and drinking.
`They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a
minute or two.
`They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice gently
remarked; `they'd have been ill.'
`So they were,' said the Dormouse; `VERY ill.'
Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary ways
of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went
on: `But why did they live at the bottom of a well?'
`Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very
earnestly.
`I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, `so
I can't take more.'
`You mean you can't take LESS,' said the Hatter: `it's very
easy to take MORE than nothing.'
`Nobody asked YOUR opinion,' said Alice.
`Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter asked
triumphantly.
Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped
herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the
Dormouse, and repeated her question. `Why did they live at the
bottom of a well?'
The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and
then said, `It was a treacle-well.'
`There's no such thing!' Alice was beginning very angrily, but
the Hatter and the March Hare went `Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse
sulkily remarked, `If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the
story for yourself.'
`No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; `I won't interrupt
again. I dare say there may be ONE.'
`One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he
consented to go on. `And so these three little sisters--they
were learning to draw, you know--'
`What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting her promise.
`Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this
time.
`I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: `let's all move
one place on.'
He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the
March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather
unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the
only one who got any advantage from the change: and Alice was a
good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset
the milk-jug into his plate.
Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began
very cautiously: `But I don't understand. Where did they draw
the treacle from?'
`You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the Hatter; `so
I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh,
stupid?'
`But they were IN the well,' Alice said to the Dormouse, not
choosing to notice this last remark.
`Of course they were', said the Dormouse; `--well in.'
This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse
go on for some time without interrupting it.
`They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went on, yawning and
rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; `and they drew
all manner of things--everything that begins with an M--'
`Why with an M?' said Alice.
`Why not?' said the March Hare.
Alice was silent.
The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going
off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up
again with a little shriek, and went on: `--that begins with an
M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness--
you know you say things are "much of a muchness"--did you ever
see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?'
`Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much confused, `I
don't think--'
`Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got
up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep
instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her
going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that
they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were
trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.
`At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she
picked her way through the wood. `It's the stupidest tea-party I
ever was at in all my life!'
Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a
door leading right into it. `That's very curious!' she thought.
`But everything's curious today. I think I may as well go in at once.'
And in she went.
Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the
little glass table. `Now, I'll manage better this time,'
she said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key,
and unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she went
to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it
in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down
the little passage: and THEN--she found herself at last in the
beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.
CHAPTER VIII
The Queen's Croquet-Ground
A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the
roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at
it, busily painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious
thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up
to them she heard one of them say, `Look out now, Five! Don't go
splashing paint over me like that!'
`I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; `Seven jogged
my elbow.'
On which Seven looked up and said, `That's right, Five! Always
lay the blame on others!'
`YOU'D better not talk!' said Five. `I heard the Queen say only
yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'
`What for?' said the one who had spoken first.
`That's none of YOUR business, Two!' said Seven.
`Yes, it IS his business!' said Five, `and I'll tell him--it
was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.'
Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun `Well, of all
the unjust things--' when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as
she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the
others looked round also, and all of them bowed low.
`Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, `why you are
painting those roses?'
Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Two began in a
low voice, `Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to
have been a RED rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake;
and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads
cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore
she comes, to--' At this moment Five, who had been anxiously
looking across the garden, called out `The Queen! The Queen!'
and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat upon
their faces. There was a sound of many footsteps, and Alice
looked round, eager to see the Queen.
First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped
like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and
feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were
ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the
soldiers did. After these came the royal children; there were
ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand
in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next
came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice
recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous
manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without
noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the
King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this
grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.
Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on
her face like the three gardeners, but she could not remember
ever having heard of such a rule at processions; `and besides,
what would be the use of a procession,' thought she, `if people
had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn't see it?'
So she stood still where she was, and waited.
When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped
and looked at her, and the Queen said severely `Who is this?'
She said it to the Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply.
`Idiot!' said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and,
turning to Alice, she went on, `What's your name, child?'
`My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,' said Alice very
politely; but she added, to herself, `Why, they're only a pack of
cards, after all. I needn't be afraid of them!'
`And who are THESE?' said the Queen, pointing to the three
gardeners who were lying round the rosetree; for, you see, as
they were lying on their faces, and the pattern on their backs
was the same as the rest of the pack, she could not tell whether
they were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her
own children.
`How should I know?' said Alice, surprised at her own courage.
`It's no business of MINE.'
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her
for a moment like a wild beast, screamed `Off with her head!
Off--'
`Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the
Queen was silent.
The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said
`Consider, my dear: she is only a child!'
The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave
`Turn them over!'
The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
`Get up!' said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the
three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the
King, the Queen, the royal children, and everybody else.
`Leave off that!' screamed the Queen. `You make me giddy.'
And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, `What HAVE you
been doing here?'
`May it please your Majesty,' said Two, in a very humble tone,
going down on one knee as he spoke, `we were trying--'
`I see!' said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the
roses. `Off with their heads!' and the procession moved on,
three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate
gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.
`You shan't be beheaded!' said Alice, and she put them into a
large flower-pot that stood near. The three soldiers wandered
about for a minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly
marched off after the others.
`Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen.
`Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!' the soldiers
shouted in reply.
`That's right!' shouted the Queen. `Can you play croquet?'
The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question
was evidently meant for her.
`Yes!' shouted Alice.
`Come on, then!' roared the Queen, and Alice joined the
procession, wondering very much what would happen next.
`It's--it's a very fine day!' said a timid voice at her side.
She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously
into her face.
`Very,' said Alice: `--where's the Duchess?'
`Hush! Hush!' said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He
looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised
himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and
whispered `She's under sentence of execution.'
`What for?' said Alice.
`Did you say "What a pity!"?' the Rabbit asked.
`No, I didn't,' said Alice: `I don't think it's at all a pity.
I said "What for?"'
`She boxed the Queen's ears--' the Rabbit began. Alice gave a
little scream of laughter. `Oh, hush!' the Rabbit whispered in a
frightened tone. `The Queen will hear you! You see, she came
rather late, and the Queen said--'
`Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder,
and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up
against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or
two, and the game began. Alice thought she had never seen such a
curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and
furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live
flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to
stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her
flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away,
comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down,
but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened
out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it
WOULD twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a
puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing:
and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again,
it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled
itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this,
there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she
wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers
were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the
ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very
difficult game indeed.
The players all played at once without waiting for turns,
quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in
a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went
stamping about, and shouting `Off with his head!' or `Off with
her head!' about once in a minute.
Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as
yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might
happen any minute, `and then,' thought she, `what would become of
me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great
wonder is, that there's any one left alive!'
She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering
whether she could get away without being seen, when she noticed a
curious appearance in the air: it puzzled her very much at
first, but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to
be a grin, and she said to herself `It's the Cheshire Cat: now I
shall have somebody to talk to.'
`How are you getting on?' said the Cat, as soon as there was
mouth enough for it to speak with.
Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. `It's no
use speaking to it,' she thought, `till its ears have come, or at
least one of them.' In another minute the whole head appeared,
and then Alice put down her flamingo, and began an account of the
game, feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her. The
Cat seemed to think that there was enough of it now in sight, and
no more of it appeared.
`I don't think they play at all fairly,' Alice began, in rather
a complaining tone, `and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't
hear oneself speak--and they don't seem to have any rules in
particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them--and
you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive;
for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next
walking about at the other end of the ground--and I should have
croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it
saw mine coming!'
`How do you like the Queen?' said the Cat in a low voice.
`Not at all,' said Alice: `she's so extremely--' Just then
she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so
she went on, `--likely to win, that it's hardly worth while
finishing the game.'
The Queen smiled and passed on.
`Who ARE you talking to?' said the King, going up to Alice, and
looking at the Cat's head with great curiosity.
`It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said Alice: `allow me
to introduce it.'
`I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King:
`however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
`I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
`Don't be impertinent,' said the King, `and don't look at me
like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
`A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. `I've read that in
some book, but I don't remember where.'
`Well, it must be removed,' said the King very decidedly, and
he called the Queen, who was passing at the moment, `My dear! I
wish you would have this cat removed!'
The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great
or small. `Off with his head!' she said, without even looking
round.
`I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the King eagerly, and
he hurried off.
Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game
was going on, as she heard the Queen's voice in the distance,
screaming with passion. She had already heard her sentence three
of the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and
she did not like the look of things at all, as the game was in
such confusion that she never knew whether it was her turn or
not. So she went in search of her hedgehog.
The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog,
which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one
of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her
flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where
Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up
into a tree.
By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back,
the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight:
`but it doesn't matter much,' thought Alice, `as all the arches
are gone from this side of the ground.' So she tucked it away
under her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back for
a little more conversation with her friend.
When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to
find quite a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute
going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who
were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent,
and looked very uncomfortable.
The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to
settle the question, and they repeated their arguments to her,
though, as they all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed
to make out exactly what they said.
The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a
head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had
never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin
at HIS time of life.
The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could be
beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.
The Queen's argument was, that if something wasn't done about
it in less than no time she'd have everybody executed, all round.
(It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so
grave and anxious.)
Alice could think of nothing else to say but `It belongs to the
Duchess: you'd better ask HER about it.'
`She's in prison,' the Queen said to the executioner: `fetch
her here.' And the executioner went off like an arrow.
The Cat's head began fading away the moment he was gone, and,
by the time he had come back with the Dutchess, it had entirely
disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down
looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game.
CHAPTER IX
The Mock Turtle's Story
`You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old
thing!' said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately
into Alice's, and they walked off together.
Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and
thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had
made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
`When I'M a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a very
hopeful tone though), `I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT
ALL. Soup does very well without--Maybe it's always pepper that
makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very much pleased at
having found out a new kind of rule, `and vinegar that makes them
sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--and barley-sugar
and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish
people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you
know--'
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a
little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear.
`You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you
forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that
is, but I shall remember it in a bit.'
`Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.
`Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. `Everything's got a
moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up
closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first,
because the Duchess was VERY ugly; and secondly, because she was
exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder,
and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not
like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
`The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of
keeping up the conversation a little.
`'Tis so,' said the Duchess: `and the moral of that is--"Oh,
'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'
`Somebody said,' Alice whispered, `that it's done by everybody
minding their own business!'
`Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess,
digging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added,
`and the moral of THAT is--"Take care of the sense, and the
sounds will take care of themselves."'
`How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to
herself.
`I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your
waist,' the Duchess said after a pause: `the reason is, that I'm
doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the
experiment?'
`HE might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all
anxious to have the experiment tried.
`Very true,' said the Duchess: `flamingoes and mustard both
bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock
together."'
`Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
`Right, as usual,' said the Duchess: `what a clear way you
have of putting things!'
`It's a mineral, I THINK,' said Alice.
`Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree
to everything that Alice said; `there's a large mustard-mine near
here. And the moral of that is--"The more there is of mine, the
less there is of yours."'
`Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this
last remark, `it's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it
is.'
`I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; `and the moral of
that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put
more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than
what it might appear to others that what you were or might have
been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared
to them to be otherwise."'
`I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very
politely, `if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it
as you say it.'
`That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess
replied, in a pleased tone.
`Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,'
said Alice.
`Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. `I make you
a present of everything I've said as yet.'
`A cheap sort of present!' thought Alice. `I'm glad they don't
give birthday presents like that!' But she did not venture to
say it out loud.
`Thinking again?' the Duchess asked, with another dig of her
sharp little chin.
`I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was
beginning to feel a little worried.
`Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, `as pigs have to fly;
and the m--'
But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died
away, even in the middle of her favourite word `moral,' and the
arm that was linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up,
and there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded,
frowning like a thunderstorm.
`A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a low, weak
voice.
`Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen, stamping on
the ground as she spoke; `either you or your head must be off,
and that in about half no time! Take your choice!'
The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.
`Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to Alice; and Alice
was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her
back to the croquet-ground.
The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen's absence,
and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her,
they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a
moment's delay would cost them their lives.
All the time they were playing the Queen never left off
quarrelling with the other players, and shouting `Off with his
head!' or `Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were
taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave
off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour
or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the
King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of
execution.
Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to
Alice, `Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'
`No,' said Alice. `I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is.'
`It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said the Queen.
`I never saw one, or heard of one,' said Alice.
`Come on, then,' said the Queen, `and he shall tell you his
history,'
As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low
voice, to the company generally, `You are all pardoned.' `Come,
THAT'S a good thing!' she said to herself, for she had felt quite
unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.
They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the
sun. (IF you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.)
`Up, lazy thing!' said the Queen, `and take this young lady to
see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and
see after some executions I have ordered'; and she walked off,
leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like
the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would
be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage
Queen: so she waited.
The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the
Queen till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. `What fun!'
said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.
`What IS the fun?' said Alice.
`Why, SHE,' said the Gryphon. `It's all her fancy, that: they
never executes nobody, you know. Come on!'
`Everybody says "come on!" here,' thought Alice, as she went
slowly after it: `I never was so ordered about in all my life,
never!'
They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the
distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and,
as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart
would break. She pitied him deeply. `What is his sorrow?' she
asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the
same words as before, `It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got
no sorrow, you know. Come on!'
So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with
large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.
`This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, `she wants for to
know your history, she do.'
`I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow
tone: `sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've
finished.'
So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice
thought to herself, `I don't see how he can EVEN finish, if he
doesn't begin.' But she waited patiently.
`Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, `I was
a real Turtle.'
These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only
by an occasional exclamation of `Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and
the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very
nearly getting up and saying, `Thank you, sir, for your
interesting story,' but she could not help thinking there MUST be
more to come, so she sat still and said nothing.
`When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more
calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, `we went to
school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call
him Tortoise--'
`Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked.
`We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock
Turtle angrily: `really you are very dull!'
`You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple
question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and
looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. At
last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, `Drive on, old fellow!
Don't be all day about it!' and he went on in these words:
`Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe
it--'
`I never said I didn't!' interrupted Alice.
`You did,' said the Mock Turtle.
`Hold your tongue!' added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak
again. The Mock Turtle went on.
`We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to school
every day--'
`I'VE been to a day-school, too,' said Alice; `you needn't be
so proud as all that.'
`With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously.
`Yes,' said Alice, `we learned French and music.'
`And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.
`Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly.
`Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock
Turtle in a tone of great relief. `Now at OURS they had at the
end of the bill, "French, music, AND WASHING--extra."'
`You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice; `living at the
bottom of the sea.'
`I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle with a
sigh. `I only took the regular course.'
`What was that?' inquired Alice.
`Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock
Turtle replied; `and then the different branches of Arithmetic--
Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'
`I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to say. `What is it?'
The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. `What! Never
heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. `You know what to beautify is,
I suppose?'
`Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: `it means--to--make--anything--prettier.'
`Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, `if you don't know what to
uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.'
Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about
it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said `What else had you
to learn?'
`Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting
off the subjects on his flappers, `--Mystery, ancient and modern,
with Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old
conger-eel, that used to come once a week: HE taught us
Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'
`What was THAT like?' said Alice.
`Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: `I'm
too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'
`Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: `I went to the Classics
master, though. He was an old crab, HE was.'
`I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: `he
taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'
`So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn;
and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.
`And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a
hurry to change the subject.
`Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: `nine the
next, and so on.'
`What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
`That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon
remarked: `because they lessen from day to day.'
This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a
little before she made her next remark. `Then the eleventh day
must have been a holiday?'
`Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle.
`And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice went on eagerly.
`That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon interrupted in a
very decided tone: `tell her something about the games now.'
CHAPTER X
The Lobster Quadrille
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one flapper
across his eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for
a minute or two sobs choked his voice. `Same as if he had a bone
in his throat,' said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him
and punching him in the back. At last the Mock Turtle recovered
his voice, and, with tears running down his cheeks, he went on
again:--
`You may not have lived much under the sea--' (`I haven't,' said Alice)--
`and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster--'
(Alice began to say `I once tasted--' but checked herself hastily,
and said `No, never') `--so you can have no idea what a delightful
thing a Lobster Quadrille is!'
`No, indeed,' said Alice. `What sort of a dance is it?'
`Why,' said the Gryphon, `you first form into a line along the sea-shore--'
`Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle. `Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on;
then, when you've cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way--'
`THAT generally takes some time,' interrupted the Gryphon.
`--you advance twice--'
`Each with a lobster as a partner!' cried the Gryphon.
`Of course,' the Mock Turtle said: `advance twice, set to
partners--'
`--change lobsters, and retire in same order,' continued the
Gryphon.
`Then, you know,' the Mock Turtle went on, `you throw the--'
`The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air.
`--as far out to sea as you can--'
`Swim after them!' screamed the Gryphon.
`Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the Mock Turtle,
capering wildly about.
`Change lobster's again!' yelled the Gryphon at the top of its voice.
`Back to land again, and that's all the first figure,' said the
Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two creatures,
who had been jumping about like mad things all this time, sat
down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice.
`It must be a very pretty dance,' said Alice timidly.
`Would you like to see a little of it?' said the Mock Turtle.
`Very much indeed,' said Alice.
`Come, let's try the first figure!' said the Mock Turtle to the
Gryphon. `We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall
sing?'
`Oh, YOU sing,' said the Gryphon. `I've forgotten the words.'
So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now
and then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and
waving their forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle
sang this, very slowly and sadly:--
`"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my
tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the
dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the
dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the
dance?
"You can really have no notion how delightful it will be
When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to
sea!"
But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a look
askance--
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the
dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join
the dance.
Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join
the dance.
`"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied.
"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
The further off from England the nearer is to France--
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the
dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the
dance?"'
`Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to watch,' said
Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: `and I do so
like that curious song about the whiting!'
`Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, `they--you've
seen them, of course?'
`Yes,' said Alice, `I've often seen them at dinn--' she
checked herself hastily.
`I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock Turtle, `but
if you've seen them so often, of course you know what they're
like.'
`I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. `They have their
tails in their mouths--and they're all over crumbs.'
`You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle:
`crumbs would all wash off in the sea. But they HAVE their tails
in their mouths; and the reason is--' here the Mock Turtle
yawned and shut his eyes.--`Tell her about the reason and all
that,' he said to the Gryphon.
`The reason is,' said the Gryphon, `that they WOULD go with
the lobsters to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So
they had to fall a long way. So they got their tails fast in
their mouths. So they couldn't get them out again. That's all.'
`Thank you,' said Alice, `it's very interesting. I never knew
so much about a whiting before.'
`I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the
Gryphon. `Do you know why it's called a whiting?'
`I never thought about it,' said Alice. `Why?'
`IT DOES THE BOOTS AND SHOES.' the Gryphon replied very
solemnly.
Alice was thoroughly puzzled. `Does the boots and shoes!' she
repeated in a wondering tone.
`Why, what are YOUR shoes done with?' said the Gryphon. `I
mean, what makes them so shiny?'
Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she
gave her answer. `They're done with blacking, I believe.'
`Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on in a deep
voice, `are done with a whiting. Now you know.'
`And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a tone of great
curiosity.
`Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather
impatiently: `any shrimp could have told you that.'
`If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were
still running on the song, `I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep
back, please: we don't want YOU with us!"'
`They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle
said: `no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'
`Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great surprise.
`Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: `why, if a fish came
to ME, and told me he was going a journey, I should say "With
what porpoise?"'
`Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.
`I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended
tone. And the Gryphon added `Come, let's hear some of YOUR
adventures.'
`I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,'
said Alice a little timidly: `but it's no use going back to
yesterday, because I was a different person then.'
`Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.
`No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an
impatient tone: `explanations take such a dreadful time.'
So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when
she first saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about
it just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on
each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so VERY wide, but she
gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly
quiet till she got to the part about her repeating `YOU ARE OLD,
FATHER WILLIAM,' to the Caterpillar, and the words all coming
different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said
`That's very curious.'
`It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the Gryphon.
`It all came different!' the Mock Turtle repeated
thoughtfully. `I should like to hear her try and repeat
something now. Tell her to begin.' He looked at the Gryphon as
if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice.
`Stand up and repeat "'TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,"' said
the Gryphon.
`How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat
lessons!' thought Alice; `I might as well be at school at once.'
However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so
full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was
saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
`'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
[later editions continued as follows
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark,
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.]
`That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,'
said the Gryphon.
`Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it
sounds uncommon nonsense.'
Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her
hands, wondering if anything would EVER happen in a natural way
again.
`I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
`She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with
the next verse.'
`But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How COULD
he turn them out with his nose, you know?'
`It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was
dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the
subject.
`Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated impatiently:
`it begins "I passed by his garden."'
Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would
all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:--
`I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--'
[later editions continued as follows
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
And concluded the banquet--]
`What IS the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle
interrupted, `if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far
the most confusing thing I ever heard!'
`Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon: and
Alice was only too glad to do so.
`Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the
Gryphon went on. `Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you
a song?'
`Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,'
Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather
offended tone, `Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her
"Turtle Soup," will you, old fellow?'
The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes
choked with sobs, to sing this:--
`Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
`Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,
Game, or any other dish?
Who would not give all else for two p
ennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!'
`Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had
just begun to repeat it, when a cry of `The trial's beginning!'
was heard in the distance.
`Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand,
it hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.
`What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon
only answered `Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more
faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the
melancholy words:--
`Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!'
CHAPTER XI
Who Stole the Tarts?
The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when
they arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts
of little birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards:
the Knave was standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on
each side to guard him; and near the King was the White Rabbit,
with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the
other. In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large
dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice
quite hungry to look at them--`I wish they'd get the trial done,'
she thought, `and hand round the refreshments!' But there seemed
to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about
her, to pass away the time.
Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had
read about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that
she knew the name of nearly everything there. `That's the
judge,' she said to herself, `because of his great wig.'
The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown
over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he
did it,) he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly
not becoming.
`And that's the jury-box,' thought Alice, `and those twelve
creatures,' (she was obliged to say `creatures,' you see, because
some of them were animals, and some were birds,) `I suppose they
are the jurors.' She said this last word two or three times over
to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and
rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the
meaning of it at all. However, `jury-men' would have done just
as well.
The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates.
`What are they doing?' Alice whispered to the Gryphon. `They
can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun.'
`They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in
reply, `for fear they should forget them before the end of the
trial.'
`Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but
she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, `Silence in
the court!' and the King put on his spectacles and looked
anxiously round, to make out who was talking.
Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their
shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down `stupid things!'
on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them
didn't know how to spell `stupid,' and that he had to ask his
neighbour to tell him. `A nice muddle their slates'll be in
before the trial's over!' thought Alice.
One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course,
Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got
behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it
away. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was
Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of
it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write
with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very
little use, as it left no mark on the slate.
`Herald, read the accusation!' said the King.
On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and
then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:--
`The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
All on a summer day:
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
And took them quite away!'
`Consider your verdict,' the King said to the jury.
`Not yet, not yet!' the Rabbit hastily interrupted. `There's
a great deal to come before that!'
`Call the first witness,' said the King; and the White Rabbit
blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, `First
witness!'
The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in
one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. `I beg
pardon, your Majesty,' he began, `for bringing these in: but I
hadn't quite finished my tea when I was sent for.'
`You ought to have finished,' said the King. `When did you
begin?'
The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into
the court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. `Fourteenth of March, I
think it was,' he said.
`Fifteenth,' said the March Hare.
`Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse.
`Write that down,' the King said to the jury, and the jury
eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then
added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
`Take off your hat,' the King said to the Hatter.
`It isn't mine,' said the Hatter.
`Stolen!' the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who
instantly made a memorandum of the fact.
`I keep them to sell,' the Hatter added as an explanation;
`I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.'
Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the
Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.
`Give your evidence,' said the King; `and don't be nervous, or
I'll have you executed on the spot.'
This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept
shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the
Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his
teacup instead of the bread-and-butter.
Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which
puzzled her a good deal until she made out what it was: she was
beginning to grow larger again, and she thought at first she
would get up and leave the court; but on second thoughts she
decided to remain where she was as long as there was room for
her.
`I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.' said the Dormouse, who was
sitting next to her. `I can hardly breathe.'
`I can't help it,' said Alice very meekly: `I'm growing.'
`You've no right to grow here,' said the Dormouse.
`Don't talk nonsense,' said Alice more boldly: `you know
you're growing too.'
`Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the Dormouse:
`not in that ridiculous fashion.' And he got up very sulkily
and crossed over to the other side of the court.
All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the
Hatter, and, just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to
one of the officers of the court, `Bring me the list of the
singers in the last concert!' on which the wretched Hatter
trembled so, that he shook both his shoes off.
`Give your evidence,' the King repeated angrily, `or I'll have
you executed, whether you're nervous or not.'
`I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' the Hatter began, in a
trembling voice, `--and I hadn't begun my tea--not above a week
or so--and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin--and
the twinkling of the tea--'
`The twinkling of the what?' said the King.
`It began with the tea,' the Hatter replied.
`Of course twinkling begins with a T!' said the King sharply.
`Do you take me for a dunce? Go on!'
`I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, `and most things
twinkled after that--only the March Hare said--'
`I didn't!' the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry.
`You did!' said the Hatter.
`I deny it!' said the March Hare.
`He denies it,' said the King: `leave out that part.'
`Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--' the Hatter went on,
looking anxiously round to see if he would deny it too: but the
Dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep.
`After that,' continued the Hatter, `I cut some more bread-
and-butter--'
`But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked.
`That I can't remember,' said the Hatter.
`You MUST remember,' remarked the King, `or I'll have you
executed.'
The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter,
and went down on one knee. `I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' he
began.
`You're a very poor speaker,' said the King.
Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately
suppressed by the officers of the court. (As that is rather a
hard word, I will just explain to you how it was done. They had
a large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings:
into this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat
upon it.)
`I'm glad I've seen that done,' thought Alice. `I've so often
read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, "There was some
attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the
officers of the court," and I never understood what it meant
till now.'
`If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,'
continued the King.
`I can't go no lower,' said the Hatter: `I'm on the floor, as
it is.'
`Then you may SIT down,' the King replied.
Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was suppressed.
`Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!' thought Alice. `Now we
shall get on better.'
`I'd rather finish my tea,' said the Hatter, with an anxious
look at the Queen, who was reading the list of singers.
`You may go,' said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the
court, without even waiting to put his shoes on.
`--and just take his head off outside,' the Queen added to one
of the officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the
officer could get to the door.
`Call the next witness!' said the King.
The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the
pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before
she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began
sneezing all at once.
`Give your evidence,' said the King.
`Shan't,' said the cook.
The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a
low voice, `Your Majesty must cross-examine THIS witness.'
`Well, if I must, I must,' the King said, with a melancholy
air, and, after folding his arms and frowning at the cook till
his eyes were nearly out of sight, he said in a deep voice, `What
are tarts made of?'
`Pepper, mostly,' said the cook.
`Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.
`Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out. `Behead that
Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch
him! Off with his whiskers!'
For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the
Dormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down
again, the cook had disappeared.
`Never mind!' said the King, with an air of great relief.
`Call the next witness.' And he added in an undertone to the
Queen, `Really, my dear, YOU must cross-examine the next witness.
It quite makes my forehead ache!'
Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list,
feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like,
`--for they haven't got much evidence YET,' she said to herself.
Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top
of his shrill little voice, the name `Alice!'
CHAPTER XII
Alice's Evidence
`Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the
moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she
jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with
the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads
of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding
her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset
the week before.
`Oh, I BEG your pardon!' she exclaimed in a tone of great
dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could,
for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and
she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once
and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.
`The trial cannot proceed,' said the King in a very grave
voice, `until all the jurymen are back in their proper places--
ALL,' he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as
he said do.
Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she
had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing
was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable
to move. She soon got it out again, and put it right; `not that
it signifies much,' she said to herself; `I should think it
would be QUITE as much use in the trial one way up as the other.'
As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of
being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and
handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write
out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed
too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open,
gazing up into the roof of the court.
`What do you know about this business?' the King said to
Alice.
`Nothing,' said Alice.
`Nothing WHATEVER?' persisted the King.
`Nothing whatever,' said Alice.
`That's very important,' the King said, turning to the jury.
They were just beginning to write this down on their slates, when
the White Rabbit interrupted: `UNimportant, your Majesty means,
of course,' he said in a very respectful tone, but frowning and
making faces at him as he spoke.
`UNimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and
went on to himself in an undertone, `important--unimportant--
unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word
sounded best.
Some of the jury wrote it down `important,' and some
`unimportant.' Alice could see this, as she was near enough to
look over their slates; `but it doesn't matter a bit,' she
thought to herself.
At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily
writing in his note-book, cackled out `Silence!' and read out
from his book, `Rule Forty-two. ALL PERSONS MORE THAN A MILE
HIGH TO LEAVE THE COURT.'
Everybody looked at Alice.
`I'M not a mile high,' said Alice.
`You are,' said the King.
`Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen.
`Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: `besides,
that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.'
`It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.
`Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice.
The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily.
`Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, trembling
voice.
`There's more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,' said
the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; `this paper has
just been picked up.'
`What's in it?' said the Queen.
`I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, `but it seems
to be a letter, written by the prisoner to--to somebody.'
`It must have been that,' said the King, `unless it was
written to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.'
`Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen.
`It isn't directed at all,' said the White Rabbit; `in fact,
there's nothing written on the OUTSIDE.' He unfolded the paper
as he spoke, and added `It isn't a letter, after all: it's a set
of verses.'
`Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked another of
they jurymen.
`No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, `and that's the
queerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.)
`He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said the King.
(The jury all brightened up again.)
`Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, `I didn't write it, and
they can't prove I did: there's no name signed at the end.'
`If you didn't sign it,' said the King, `that only makes the
matter worse. You MUST have meant some mischief, or else you'd
have signed your name like an honest man.'
There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the
first really clever thing the King had said that day.
`That PROVES his guilt,' said the Queen.
`It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. `Why, you don't
even know what they're about!'
`Read them,' said the King.
The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. `Where shall I begin,
please your Majesty?' he asked.
`Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, `and go on
till you come to the end: then stop.'
These were the verses the White Rabbit read:--
`They told me you had been to her,
And mentioned me to him:
She gave me a good character,
But said I could not swim.
He sent them word I had not gone
(We know it to be true):
If she should push the matter on,
What would become of you?
I gave her one, they gave him two,
You gave us three or more;
They all returned from him to you,
Though they were mine before.
If I or she should chance to be
Involved in this affair,
He trusts to you to set them free,
Exactly as we were.
My notion was that you had been
(Before she had this fit)
An obstacle that came between
Him, and ourselves, and it.
Don't let him know she liked them best,
For this must ever be
A secret, kept from all the rest,
Between yourself and me.'
`That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,'
said the King, rubbing his hands; `so now let the jury--'
`If any one of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she had
grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit
afraid of interrupting him,) `I'll give him sixpence. _I_ don't
believe there's an atom of meaning in it.'
The jury all wrote down on their slates, `SHE doesn't believe
there's an atom of meaning in it,' but none of them attempted to
explain the paper.
`If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, `that saves a
world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And
yet I don't know,' he went on, spreading out the verses on his
knee, and looking at them with one eye; `I seem to see some
meaning in them, after all. "--SAID I COULD NOT SWIM--" you
can't swim, can you?' he added, turning to the Knave.
The Knave shook his head sadly. `Do I look like it?' he said.
(Which he certainly did NOT, being made entirely of cardboard.)
`All right, so far,' said the King, and he went on muttering
over the verses to himself: `"WE KNOW IT TO BE TRUE--" that's
the jury, of course-- "I GAVE HER ONE, THEY GAVE HIM TWO--" why,
that must be what he did with the tarts, you know--'
`But, it goes on "THEY ALL RETURNED FROM HIM TO YOU,"' said
Alice.
`Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly, pointing to
the tarts on the table. `Nothing can be clearer than THAT.
Then again--"BEFORE SHE HAD THIS FIT--" you never had fits, my
dear, I think?' he said to the Queen.
`Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the
Lizard as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off
writing on his slate with one finger, as he found it made no
mark; but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that was
trickling down his face, as long as it lasted.)
`Then the words don't FIT you,' said the King, looking round
the court with a smile. There was a dead silence.
`It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and
everybody laughed, `Let the jury consider their verdict,' the
King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
`No, no!' said the Queen. `Sentence first--verdict afterwards.'
`Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. `The idea of having
the sentence first!'
`Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
`I won't!' said Alice.
`Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.
Nobody moved.
`Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full
size by this time.) `You're nothing but a pack of cards!'
At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying
down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half
of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on
the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently
brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the
trees upon her face.
`Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; `Why, what a long
sleep you've had!'
`Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told
her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange
Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and
when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, `It WAS a
curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it's
getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she
ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her
head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of
little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began
dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:--
First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the
tiny hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes
were looking up into hers--she could hear the very tones of her
voice, and see that queer little toss of her head to keep back
the wandering hair that WOULD always get into her eyes--and
still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the whole place
around her became alive the strange creatures of her little
sister's dream.
The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried
by--the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the
neighbouring pool--she could hear the rattle of the teacups as
the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal,
and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate
guests to execution--once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the
Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once
more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's
slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs,
filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable
Mock Turtle.
So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in
Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and
all would change to dull reality--the grass would be only
rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the
reeds--the rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep-
bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd
boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and
all thy other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the
confused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing of the
cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's
heavy sobs.
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of
hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how
she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and
loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about
her other little children, and make THEIR eyes bright and eager
with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of
Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their
simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys,
remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
THE END
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The Project Gutenberg Edition of the King James Bible
(Second Version, 10th Edition)
Book 01 Genesis
001:001 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
001:002 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters.
001:003 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
001:004 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the
light from the darkness.
001:005 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
001:006 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
001:007 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were
under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so.
001:008 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
001:009 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it
was so.
001:010 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together
of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
001:011 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
001:012 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in
itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
001:013 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
001:014 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
001:015 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the earth: and it was so.
001:016 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars
also.
001:017 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth,
001:018 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the
light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
001:019 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
001:020 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth
in the open firmament of heaven.
001:021 And God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that
it was good.
001:022 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the
earth.
001:023 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
001:024 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the
earth after his kind: and it was so.
001:025 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
001:026 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
001:027 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them.
001:028 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
001:029 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree,
in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it
shall be for meat.
001:030 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air,
and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there
is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was
so.
001:031 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
002:001 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
of them.
002:002 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he
had made.
002:003 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because
that in it he had rested from all his work which God created
and made.
002:004 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when
they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth
and the heavens,
002:005 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and
every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had
not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man
to till the ground.
002:006 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole
face of the ground.
002:007 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul.
002:008 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there
he put the man whom he had formed.
002:009 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree
that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of
life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
002:010 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from
thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
002:011 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth
the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
002:012 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the
onyx stone.
002:013 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that
compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
002:014 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which
goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is
Euphrates.
002:015 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to dress it and to keep it.
002:016 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of
the garden thou mayest freely eat:
002:017 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die.
002:018 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
002:019 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the
field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam
to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called
every living creature, that was the name thereof.
002:020 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not
found an help meet for him.
002:021 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he
slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof;
002:022 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man.
002:023 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of
Man.
002:024 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
002:025 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.
003:001 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
003:002 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden:
003:003 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall
ye touch it, lest ye die.
003:004 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
003:005 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good
and evil.
003:006 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and
that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to
make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
003:007 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
themselves aprons.
003:008 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the
garden.
003:009 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
art thou?
003:010 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
003:011 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou
eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat?
003:012 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
003:013 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou
hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I
did eat.
003:014 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast
of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life:
003:015 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.
003:016 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and
thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and
thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over
thee.
003:017 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I
commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is
the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all
the days of thy life;
003:018 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
003:019 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for
dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
003:020 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the
mother of all living.
003:021 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of
skins, and clothed them.
003:022 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand,
and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
003:023 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from whence he was taken.
003:024 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the
garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned
every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
004:001 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,
and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
004:002 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
004:003 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of
the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
004:004 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and
of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to
his offering:
004:005 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain
was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
004:006 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is
thy countenance fallen?
004:007 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou
doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be
his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
004:008 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass,
when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel
his brother, and slew him.
004:009 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
004:010 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's
blood crieth unto me from the ground.
004:011 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her
mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
004:012 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield
unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou
be in the earth.
004:013 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I
can bear.
004:014 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the
earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a
fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to
pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
004:015 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a
mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
004:016 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in
the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
004:017 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and
he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the
name of his son, Enoch.
004:018 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
004:019 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was
Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
004:020 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in
tents, and of such as have cattle.
004:021 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all
such as handle the harp and organ.
004:022 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every
artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was
Naamah.
004:023 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have
slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
004:024 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
sevenfold.
004:025 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called
his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another
seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
004:026 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called
his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the
LORD.
005:001 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that
God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
005:002 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called
their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
005:003 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in
his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name
Seth:
005:004 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
005:005 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
years: and he died.
005:006 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
005:007 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters:
005:008 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years:
and he died.
005:009 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
005:010 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen
years, and begat sons and daughters:
005:011 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and
he died.
005:012 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel:
005:013 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and
forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
005:014 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years:
and he died.
005:015 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
005:016 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
005:017 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and
five years: and he died.
005:018 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat
Enoch:
005:019 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters:
005:020 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two
years: and he died.
005:021 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
005:022 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
005:023 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five
years:
005:024 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
005:025 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and
begat Lamech.
005:026 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred
eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
005:027 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and
nine years: and he died.
005:028 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a
son:
005:029 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort
us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the
ground which the LORD hath cursed.
005:030 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and
five years, and begat sons and daughters:
005:031 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and
seven years: and he died.
005:032 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.
006:001 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of
the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
006:002 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were
fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
006:003 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred
and twenty years.
006:004 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after
that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men
which were of old, men of renown.
006:005 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
006:006 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart.
006:007 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping
thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I
have made them.
006:008 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
006:009 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
006:010 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
006:011 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was
filled with violence.
006:012 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
006:013 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before
me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
006:014 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
006:015 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The
length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth
of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
006:016 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou
finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the
side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou
make it.
006:017 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life,
from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall
die.
006:018 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt
come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
sons' wives with thee.
006:019 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee;
they shall be male and female.
006:020 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of
every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every
sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
006:021 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou
shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee,
and for them.
006:022 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did
he.
007:001 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into
the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this
generation.
007:002 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the
male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two,
the male and his female.
007:003 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female;
to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
007:004 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth
forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I
have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
007:005 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
007:006 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth.
007:007 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the
flood.
007:008 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of
fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
007:009 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and
the female, as God had commanded Noah.
007:010 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the
flood were upon the earth.
007:011 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,
the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the
fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened.
007:012 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
007:013 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three
wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
007:014 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after
their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every
bird of every sort.
007:015 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all
flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
007:016 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh,
as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
007:017 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters
increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the
earth.
007:018 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the
earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
007:019 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all
the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were
covered.
007:020 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered.
007:021 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl,
and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
007:022 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was
in the dry land, died.
007:023 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the
face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping
things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed
from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that
were with him in the ark.
007:024 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty
days.
008:001 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the
cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to
pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
008:002 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were
stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
008:003 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and
after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were
abated.
008:004 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
008:005 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in
the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops
of the mountains seen.
008:006 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
the window of the ark which he had made:
008:007 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until
the waters were dried up from off the earth.
008:008 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were
abated from off the face of the ground;
008:009 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she
returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the
face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took
her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
008:010 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark;
008:011 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her
mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the
waters were abated from off the earth.
008:012 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove;
which returned not again unto him any more.
008:013 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in
the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were
dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of
the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was
dry.
008:014 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the
month, was the earth dried.
008:015 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
008:016 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy
sons' wives with thee.
008:017 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of
all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed
abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon
the earth.
008:018 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons'
wives with him:
008:019 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and
whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went
forth out of the ark.
008:020 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every
clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar.
008:021 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his
heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's
sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his
youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living,
as I have done.
008:022 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
cease.
009:001 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
009:002 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every
beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all
that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the
sea; into your hand are they delivered.
009:003 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as
the green herb have I given you all things.
009:004 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof,
shall ye not eat.
009:005 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the
hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man;
at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of
man.
009:006 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God made he man.
009:007 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly
in the earth, and multiply therein.
009:008 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
009:009 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your
seed after you;
009:010 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl,
of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from
all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
009:011 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all
flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither
shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
009:012 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you and every living creature that is with you,
for perpetual generations:
009:013 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
covenant between me and the earth.
009:014 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
009:015 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you
and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall
no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
009:016 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and
every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
009:017 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant,
which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon
the earth.
009:018 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem,
and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
009:019 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole
earth overspread.
009:020 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
009:021 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was
uncovered within his tent.
009:022 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his
father, and told his two brethren without.
009:023 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both
their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness
of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw
not their father's nakedness.
009:024 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son
had done unto him.
009:025 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he
be unto his brethren.
009:026 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall
be his servant.
009:027 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of
Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
009:028 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
009:029 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years:
and he died.
010:001 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham,
and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
010:002 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
010:003 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
010:004 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and
Dodanim.
010:005 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their
lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in
their nations.
010:006 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
010:007 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and
Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and
Dedan.
010:008 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the
earth.
010:009 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said,
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
010:010 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
010:011 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and
the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
010:012 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
010:013 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
010:014 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and
Caphtorim.
010:015 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
010:016 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
010:017 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
010:018 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and
afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
010:019 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou
comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and
Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
010:020 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their
tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
010:021 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the
brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
010:022 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
and Aram.
010:023 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
010:024 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
010:025 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg;
for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name
was Joktan.
010:026 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and
Jerah,
010:027 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
010:028 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
010:029 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of
Joktan.
010:030 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a
mount of the east.
010:031 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their
tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
010:032 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their
generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations
divided in the earth after the flood.
011:001 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
011:002 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt
there.
011:003 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
had they for morter.
011:004 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
011:005 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
011:006 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing
will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
011:007 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
they may not understand one another's speech.
011:008 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of
all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
011:009 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did
there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence
did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the
earth.
011:010 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years
old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
011:011 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters.
011:012 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
011:013 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
011:014 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
011:015 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three
years, and begat sons and daughters.
011:016 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
011:017 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters.
011:018 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
011:019 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years,
and begat sons and daughters.
011:020 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
011:021 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters.
011:022 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
011:023 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and
begat sons and daughters.
011:024 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
011:025 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen
years, and begat sons and daughters.
011:026 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and
Haran.
011:027 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
011:028 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his
nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
011:029 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife
was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter
of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
011:030 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
011:031 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his
son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's
wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees,
to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and
dwelt there.
011:032 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and
Terah died in Haran.
012:001 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country,
and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land
that I will shew thee:
012:002 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
012:003 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed.
012:004 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot
went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when
he departed out of Haran.
012:005 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and
all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that
they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
012:006 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem,
unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the
land.
012:007 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will
I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD,
who appeared unto him.
012:008 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of
Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and
Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD,
and called upon the name of the LORD.
012:009 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
012:010 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into
Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the
land.
012:011 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into
Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know
that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
012:012 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see
thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will
kill me, but they will save thee alive.
012:013 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with
me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
012:014 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the
Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
012:015 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before
Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
012:016 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep,
and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and
she asses, and camels.
012:017 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues
because of Sarai Abram's wife.
012:018 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast
done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy
wife?
012:019 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her
to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go
thy way.
012:020 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent
him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
013:001 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that
he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
013:002 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
013:003 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel,
unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,
between Bethel and Hai;
013:004 Unto the place of the altar, which he had make there at the
first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
013:005 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds,
and tents.
013:006 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell
together: for their substance was great, so that they could
not dwell together.
013:007 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle
and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the
Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
013:008 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen;
for we be brethren.
013:009 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray
thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go
to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will
go to the left.
013:010 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of
Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD,
like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
013:011 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed
east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
013:012 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the
cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
013:013 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD
exceedingly.
013:014 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place
where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and
westward:
013:015 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and
to thy seed for ever.
013:016 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if
a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed
also be numbered.
013:017 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the
breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
013:018 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain
of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto
the LORD.
014:001 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal
king of nations;
014:002 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha
king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
014:003 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is
the salt sea.
014:004 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth
year they rebelled.
014:005 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings
that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth
Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh
Kiriathaim,
014:006 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by
the wilderness.
014:007 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and
smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the
Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
014:008 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of
Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and
the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle
with them in the vale of Siddim;
014:009 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of
nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar; four kings with five.
014:010 And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of
Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that
remained fled to the mountain.
014:011 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all
their victuals, and went their way.
014:012 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom,
and his goods, and departed.
014:013 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the
Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite,
brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were
confederate with Abram.
014:014 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he
armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three
hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
014:015 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by
night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is
on the left hand of Damascus.
014:016 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the
people.
014:017 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return
from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were
with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.
014:018 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine:
and he was the priest of the most high God.
014:019 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most
high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
014:020 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine
enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
014:021 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons,
and take the goods to thyself.
014:022 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand
unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and
earth,
014:023 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and
that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou
shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
014:024 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion
of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let
them take their portion.
015:001 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a
vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward.
015:002 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of
Damascus?
015:003 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and,
lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
015:004 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This
shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of
thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
015:005 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them:
and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
015:006 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
015:007 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of
Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
015:008 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall
inherit it?
015:009 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,
and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years
old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
015:010 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst,
and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided
he not.
015:011 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove
them away.
015:012 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
015:013 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall
be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve
them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
015:014 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance.
015:015 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age.
015:016 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for
the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
015:017 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was
dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed
between those pieces.
015:018 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt
unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
015:019 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
015:020 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
015:021 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and
the Jebusites.
016:001 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an
handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
016:002 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath
restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid;
it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram
hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
016:003 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after
Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her
to her husband Abram to be his wife.
016:004 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw
that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
016:005 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given
my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had
conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between
me and thee.
016:006 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand;
do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly
with her, she fled from her face.
016:007 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in
the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
016:008 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and
whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my
mistress Sarai.
016:009 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy
mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
016:010 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy
seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
016:011 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with
child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;
because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
016:012 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,
and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the
presence of all his brethren.
016:013 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou
God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him
that seeth me?
016:014 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is
between Kadesh and Bered.
016:015 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name,
which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
016:016 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare
Ishmael to Abram.
017:001 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD
appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.
017:002 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will
multiply thee exceedingly.
017:003 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
017:004 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be
a father of many nations.
017:005 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name
shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made
thee.
017:006 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make
nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
017:007 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy
seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting
covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
017:008 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for
an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
017:009 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
017:010 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you
and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be
circumcised.
017:011 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it
shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
017:012 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you,
every man child in your generations, he that is born in the
house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of
thy seed.
017:013 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy
money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in
your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
017:014 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is
not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people;
he hath broken my covenant.
017:015 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt
not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
017:016 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I
will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of
people shall be of her.
017:017 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his
heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years
old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
017:018 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before
thee!
017:019 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and
thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my
covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his
seed after him.
017:020 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed
him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him
exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make
him a great nation.
017:021 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall
bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
017:022 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from
Abraham.
017:023 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in
his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male
among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of
their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
017:024 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
017:025 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
017:026 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his
son.
017:027 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought
with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
018:001 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he
sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
018:002 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood
by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the
tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
018:003 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight,
pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
018:004 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your
feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
018:005 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come
to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
018:006 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make
ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make
cakes upon the hearth.
018:007 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and
good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
018:008 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had
dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under
the tree, and they did eat.
018:009 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
Behold, in the tent.
018:010 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to
the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.
And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
018:011 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and
it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
018:012 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am
waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
018:013 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
018:014 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I
will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and
Sarah shall have a son.
018:015 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid.
And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
018:016 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and
Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
018:017 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which
I do;
018:018 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in
him?
018:019 For I know him, that he will command his children and his
household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD,
to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon
Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
018:020 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is
great, and because their sin is very grievous;
018:021 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether
according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not,
I will know.
018:022 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward
Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
018:023 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
righteous with the wicked?
018:024 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt
thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that are therein?
018:025 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the
righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as
the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all
the earth do right?
018:026 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within
the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
018:027 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon
me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
018:028 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous:
wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said,
If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
018:029 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there
shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for
forty's sake.
018:030 And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will
speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he
said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
018:031 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto
the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And
he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
018:032 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak
yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And
he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
018:033 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing
with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
019:001 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the
gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and
he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
019:002 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into
your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet,
and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they
said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
019:003 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him,
and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did
bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
019:004 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of
Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the
people from every quarter:
019:005 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men
which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that
we may know them.
019:006 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door
after him,
019:007 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
019:008 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let
me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as
is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for
therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
019:009 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one
fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now
will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed
sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
019:010 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the
house to them, and shut to the door.
019:011 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with
blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied
themselves to find the door.
019:012 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in
law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast
in the city, bring them out of this place:
019:013 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is
waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath
sent us to destroy it.
019:014 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which
married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this
place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as
one that mocked unto his sons in law.
019:015 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot,
saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are
here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
019:016 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and
upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two
daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought
him forth, and set him without the city.
019:017 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,
that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee,
neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain,
lest thou be consumed.
019:018 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:
019:019 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and
thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me
in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest
some evil take me, and I die:
019:020 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little
one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and
my soul shall live.
019:021 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning
this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the
which thou hast spoken.
019:022 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou
be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called
Zoar.
019:023 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
019:024 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone
and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
019:025 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the
ground.
019:026 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.
019:027 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he
stood before the LORD:
019:028 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the
land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the
country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
019:029 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the
plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the
midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the
which Lot dwelt.
019:030 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and
his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar:
and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
019:031 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old,
and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after
the manner of all the earth:
019:032 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with
him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
019:033 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the
firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived
not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
019:034 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said
unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father:
let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in,
and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
019:035 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the
younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she
lay down, nor when she arose.
019:036 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their
father.
019:037 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the
same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
019:038 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name
Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto
this day.
020:001 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country,
and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
020:002 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and
Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
020:003 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to
him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou
hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
020:004 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt
thou slay also a righteous nation?
020:005 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she
herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart
and innocency of my hands have I done this.
020:006 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst
this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee
from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to
touch her.
020:007 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet,
and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou
restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou,
and all that are thine.
020:008 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all
his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the
men were sore afraid.
020:009 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast
thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou
hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast
done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
020:010 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou
hast done this thing?
020:011 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is
not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
020:012 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my
father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my
wife.
020:013 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my
father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness
which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall
come, say of me, He is my brother.
020:014 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him
Sarah his wife.
020:015 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell
where it pleaseth thee.
020:016 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a
thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of
the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other:
thus she was reproved.
020:017 So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his
wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
020:018 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of
Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
021:001 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did
unto Sarah as he had spoken.
021:002 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at
the set time of which God had spoken to him.
021:003 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him,
whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
021:004 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as
God had commanded him.
021:005 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was
born unto him.
021:006 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that
hear will laugh with me.
021:007 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah
should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in
his old age.
021:008 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great
feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
021:009 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had
born unto Abraham, mocking.
021:010 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and
her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with
my son, even with Isaac.
021:011 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of
his son.
021:012 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight
because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that
Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in
Isaac shall thy seed be called.
021:013 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation,
because he is thy seed.
021:014 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and
a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her
shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed,
and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
021:015 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs.
021:016 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way
off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the
death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up
her voice, and wept.
021:017 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God
called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth
thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad
where he is.
021:018 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will
make him a great nation.
021:019 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she
went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad
drink.
021:020 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the
wilderness, and became an archer.
021:021 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took
him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
021:022 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol
the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God
is with thee in all that thou doest:
021:023 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not
deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son:
but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou
shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
021:024 And Abraham said, I will swear.
021:025 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water,
which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
021:026 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing;
neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to
day.
021:027 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech;
and both of them made a covenant.
021:028 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
021:029 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe
lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
021:030 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my
hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged
this well.
021:031 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they
sware both of them.
021:032 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose
up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they
returned into the land of the Philistines.
021:033 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on
the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
021:034 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
022:001 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt
Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here
I am.
022:002 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him
there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I
will tell thee of.
022:003 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,
and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and
clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went
unto the place of which God had told him.
022:004 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the
place afar off.
022:005 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the
ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come
again to you.
022:006 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it
upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a
knife; and they went both of them together.
022:007 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father:
and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire
and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
022:008 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for
a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
022:009 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and
Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and
bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
022:010 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to
slay his son.
022:011 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and
said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
022:012 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou
any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God,
seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
022:013 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind
him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went
and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in
the stead of his son.
022:014 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it
is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be
seen.
022:015 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven
the second time,
022:016 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because
thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,
thine only son:
022:017 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will
multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand
which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the
gate of his enemies;
022:018 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
because thou hast obeyed my voice.
022:019 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and
went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
022:020 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children
unto thy brother Nahor;
022:021 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father
of Aram,
022:022 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
022:023 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to
Nahor, Abraham's brother.
022:024 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah,
and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
023:001 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
were the years of the life of Sarah.
023:002 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land
of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep
for her.
023:003 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
sons of Heth, saying,
023:004 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession
of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my
sight.
023:005 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
023:006 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the
choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall
withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury
thy dead.
023:007 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
land, even to the children of Heth.
023:008 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I
should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for
me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
023:009 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath,
which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is
worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace
amongst you.
023:010 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the
Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of
Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city,
saying,
023:011 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave
that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons
of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
023:012 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
023:013 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the
land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me:
I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I
will bury my dead there.
023:014 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
023:015 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred
shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury
therefore thy dead.
023:016 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to
Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the
sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money
with the merchant.
023:017 And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was
before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and
all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the
borders round about, were made sure
023:018 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children
of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
023:019 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of
the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the
land of Canaan.
023:020 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure
unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of
Heth.
024:001 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD
had blessed Abraham in all things.
024:002 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that
ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under
my thigh:
024:003 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and
the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my
son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
024:004 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take
a wife unto my son Isaac.
024:005 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not
be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy
son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
024:006 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my
son thither again.
024:007 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house,
and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and
that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this
land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take
a wife unto my son from thence.
024:008 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou
shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son
thither again.
024:009 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
024:010 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master,
and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his
hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of
Nahor.
024:011 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a
well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that
women go out to draw water.
024:012 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send
me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master
Abraham.
024:013 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters
of the men of the city come out to draw water:
024:014 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say,
Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she
shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let
the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant
Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness
unto my master.
024:015 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that,
behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of
Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher
upon her shoulder.
024:016 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither
had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and
filled her pitcher, and came up.
024:017 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray
thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
024:018 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her
pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
024:019 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw
water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
024:020 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and
ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his
camels.
024:021 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether
the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
024:022 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the
man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two
bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
024:023 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is
there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
024:024 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of
Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
024:025 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender
enough, and room to lodge in.
024:026 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
024:027 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who
hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth:
I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my
master's brethren.
024:028 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these
things.
024:029 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban
ran out unto the man, unto the well.
024:030 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets
upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of
Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that
he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at
the well.
024:031 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore
standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room
for the camels.
024:032 And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels,
and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash
his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
024:033 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will
not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
024:034 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
024:035 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become
great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver,
and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and
asses.
024:036 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she
was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
024:037 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a
wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose
land I dwell:
024:038 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred,
and take a wife unto my son.
024:039 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not
follow me.
024:040 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send
his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take
a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
024:041 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest
to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be
clear from my oath.
024:042 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my
master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
024:043 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to
pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I
say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy
pitcher to drink;
024:044 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for
thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath
appointed out for my master's son.
024:045 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah
came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down
unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me
drink, I pray thee.
024:046 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her
shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink
also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
024:047 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she
said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare
unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the
bracelets upon her hands.
024:048 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed
the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the
right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
024:049 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell
me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or
to the left.
024:050 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth
from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
024:051 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her
be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
024:052 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their
words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
024:053 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to
her brother and to her mother precious things.
024:054 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him,
and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he
said, Send me away unto my master.
024:055 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with
us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
024:056 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath
prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
024:057 And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her
mouth.
024:058 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with
this man? And she said, I will go.
024:059 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and
Abraham's servant, and his men.
024:060 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our
sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let
thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
024:061 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the
camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah,
and went his way.
024:062 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt
in the south country.
024:063 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide:
and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels
were coming.
024:064 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she
lighted off the camel.
024:065 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that
walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It
is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
024:066 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
024:067 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac
was comforted after his mother's death.
025:001 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
025:002 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian,
and Ishbak, and Shuah.
025:003 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were
Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
025:004 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and
Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
025:005 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
025:006 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,
Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
025:007 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he
lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
025:008 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an
old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
025:009 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the
Hittite, which is before Mamre;
025:010 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there
was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
025:011 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God
blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
025:012 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom
Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
025:013 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their
names, according to their generations: the firstborn of
Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
025:014 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
025:015 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
025:016 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by
their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to
their nations.
025:017 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and
thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and
was gathered unto his people.
025:018 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt,
as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of
all his brethren.
025:019 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham
begat Isaac:
025:020 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife,
the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to
Laban the Syrian.
025:021 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was
barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his
wife conceived.
025:022 And the children struggled together within her; and she said,
If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the
LORD.
025:023 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and
two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and
the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and
the elder shall serve the younger.
025:024 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold,
there were twins in her womb.
025:025 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment;
and they called his name Esau.
025:026 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on
Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was
threescore years old when she bare them.
025:027 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the
field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
025:028 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but
Rebekah loved Jacob.
025:029 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he
was faint:
025:030 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same
red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called
Edom.
025:031 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
025:032 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what
profit shall this birthright do to me?
025:033 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him:
and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
025:034 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did
eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau
despised his birthright.
026:001 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine
that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech
king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
026:002 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into
Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
026:003 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless
thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these
countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto
Abraham thy father;
026:004 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven,
and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy
seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
026:005 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
026:006 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
026:007 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said,
She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest,
said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah;
because she was fair to look upon.
026:008 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that
Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and
saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
026:009 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she
is thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac
said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
026:010 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one
of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou
shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
026:011 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth
this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
026:012 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year
an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
026:013 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he
became very great:
026:014 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and
great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
026:015 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in
the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped
them, and filled them with earth.
026:016 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much
mightier than we.
026:017 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley
of Gerar, and dwelt there.
026:018 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had
digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines
had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called
their names after the names by which his father had called
them.
026:019 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a
well of springing water.
026:020 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen,
saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well
Esek; because they strove with him.
026:021 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he
called the name of it Sitnah.
026:022 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for
that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth;
and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we
shall be fruitful in the land.
026:023 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
026:024 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am
the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee,
and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant
Abraham's sake.
026:025 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the
LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants
digged a well.
026:026 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his
friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
026:027 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye
hate me, and have sent me away from you?
026:028 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee:
and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt
us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
026:029 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and
as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee
away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
026:030 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
026:031 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to
another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him
in peace.
026:032 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came,
and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and
said unto him, We have found water.
026:033 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is
Beersheba unto this day.
026:034 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of
Elon the Hittite:
026:035 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
027:001 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes
were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest
son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold,
here am I.
027:002 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my
death:
027:003 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and
thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
027:004 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me,
that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
027:005 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau
went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
027:006 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard
thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
027:007 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat,
and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
027:008 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I
command thee.
027:009 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of
the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father,
such as he loveth:
027:010 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and
that he may bless thee before his death.
027:011 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother
is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
027:012 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him
as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a
blessing.
027:013 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son:
only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
027:014 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and
his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
027:015 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which
were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her
younger son:
027:016 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands,
and upon the smooth of his neck:
027:017 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had
prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
027:018 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said,
Here am I; who art thou, my son?
027:019 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I
have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit
and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
027:020 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it
so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God
brought it to me.
027:021 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may
feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
027:022 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him,
and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the
hands of Esau.
027:023 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his
brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
027:024 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
027:025 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's
venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near
to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.
027:026 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss
me, my son.
027:027 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of
his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my
son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
027:028 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness
of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
027:029 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord
over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee:
cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that
blesseth thee.
027:030 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of
blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in
from his hunting.
027:031 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his
father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat
of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
027:032 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said,
I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
027:033 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is
he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have
eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea,
and he shall be blessed.
027:034 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a
great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father,
Bless me, even me also, O my father.
027:035 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken
away thy blessing.
027:036 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath
supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright;
and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said,
Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
027:037 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him
thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for
servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and
what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
027:038 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my
father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted
up his voice, and wept.
027:039 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of
heaven from above;
027:040 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother;
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion,
that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
027:041 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his
father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of
mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my
brother Jacob.
027:042 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah:
and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto
him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort
himself, purposing to kill thee.
027:043 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to
Laban my brother to Haran;
027:044 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn
away;
027:045 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget
that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch
thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in
one day?
027:046 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of
the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters
of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land,
what good shall my life do me?
028:001 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and
said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of
Canaan.
028:002 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's
father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of
Laban thy mother's brother.
028:003 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
028:004 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy
seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou
art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
028:005 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto
Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah,
Jacob's and Esau's mother.
028:006 When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away
to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he
blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take
a wife of the daughers of Canaan;
028:007 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone
to Padanaram;
028:008 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac
his father;
028:009 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he
had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister
of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
028:010 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
028:011 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all
night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of
that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that
place to sleep.
028:012 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and
the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending on it.
028:013 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD
God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land
whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
028:014 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,
and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.
028:015 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places
whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land;
for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have
spoken to thee of.
028:016 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the
LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
028:017 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this
is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of
heaven.
028:018 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone
that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar,
and poured oil upon the top of it.
028:019 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of
that city was called Luz at the first.
028:020 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and
will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to
eat, and raiment to put on,
028:021 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall
the LORD be my God:
028:022 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's
house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give
the tenth unto thee.
029:001 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the
people of the east.
029:002 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there
were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well
they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's
mouth.
029:003 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the
stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put
the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
029:004 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they
said, Of Haran are we.
029:005 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And
they said, We know him.
029:006 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well:
and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
029:007 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that
the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep,
and go and feed them.
029:008 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth;
then we water the sheep.
029:009 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep; for she kept them.
029:010 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his
mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone
from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his
mother's brother.
029:011 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
029:012 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and
that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.
029:013 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his
sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and
kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban
all these things.
029:014 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.
And he abode with him the space of a month.
029:015 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother,
shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what
shall thy wages be?
029:016 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah,
and the name of the younger was Rachel.
029:017 Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well
favoured.
029:018 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven
years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
029:019 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than
that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
029:020 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto
him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
029:021 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are
fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
029:022 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made
a feast.
029:023 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his
daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
029:024 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an
handmaid.
029:025 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah:
and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did
not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou
beguiled me?
029:026 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give
the younger before the firstborn.
029:027 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the
service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
029:028 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him
Rachel his daughter to wife also.
029:029 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to
be her maid.
029:030 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more
than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
029:031 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb:
but Rachel was barren.
029:032 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name
Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my
affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
029:033 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the
LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this
son also: and she called his name Simeon.
029:034 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this
time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born
him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
029:035 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now
will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah;
and left bearing.
030:001 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel
envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or
else I die.
030:002 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am
I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the
womb?
030:003 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she
shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by
her.
030:004 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went
in unto her.
030:005 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
030:006 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my
voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name
Dan.
030:007 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a
second son.
030:008 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my
sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name
Naphtali.
030:009 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her
maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
030:010 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
030:011 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
030:012 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.
030:013 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
blessed: and she called his name Asher.
030:014 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.
Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's
mandrakes.
030:015 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast
taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's
mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with
thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
030:016 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went
out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for
surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay
with her that night.
030:017 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob
the fifth son.
030:018 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given
my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
030:019 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
030:020 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will
my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons:
and she called his name Zebulun.
030:021 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
030:022 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and
opened her womb.
030:023 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken
away my reproach:
030:024 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add
to me another son.
030:025 And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob
said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own
place, and to my country.
030:026 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee,
and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done
thee.
030:027 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour
in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that
the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
030:028 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
030:029 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and
how thy cattle was with me.
030:030 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is
now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee
since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own
house also?
030:031 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou
shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for
me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.
030:032 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence
all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle
among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats:
and of such shall be my hire.
030:033 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when
it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is
not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the
sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
030:034 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy
word.
030:035 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and
spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted,
and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown
among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
030:036 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and
Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
030:037 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and
chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the
white appear which was in the rods.
030:038 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in
the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to
drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
030:039 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
030:040 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock
of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put
them not unto Laban's cattle.
030:041 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the
rods.
030:042 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the
feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
030:043 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and
maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
031:001 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath
taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was
our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
031:002 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was
not toward him as before.
031:003 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy
fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
031:004 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto
his flock,
031:005 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it
is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been
with me.
031:006 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
031:007 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten
times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
031:008 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the
cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked
shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
031:009 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given
them to me.
031:010 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived,
that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold,
the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked,
speckled, and grisled.
031:011 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob:
And I said, Here am I.
031:012 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams
which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and
grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
031:013 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from
this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
031:014 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet
any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
031:015 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and
hath quite devoured also our money.
031:016 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that
is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath
said unto thee, do.
031:017 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon
camels;
031:018 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he
had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in
Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of
Canaan.
031:019 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the
images that were her father's.
031:020 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he
told him not that he fled.
031:021 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed
over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
031:022 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
031:023 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven
days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
031:024 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said
unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good
or bad.
031:025 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of
Gilead.
031:026 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast
stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as
captives taken with the sword?
031:027 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from
me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away
with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
031:028 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
031:029 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of
your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed
that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
031:030 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore
longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou
stolen my gods?
031:031 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid:
for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy
daughters from me.
031:032 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live:
before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and
take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen
them.
031:033 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and
into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then
went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
031:034 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's
furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent,
but found them not.
031:035 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that
I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon
me. And he searched but found not the images.
031:036 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered
and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that
thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
031:037 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found
of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and
thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
031:038 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she
goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock
have I not eaten.
031:039 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare
the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether
stolen by day, or stolen by night.
031:040 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost
by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
031:041 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee
fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy
cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
031:042 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear
of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now
empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my
hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
031:043 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my
daughters, and these children are my children, and these
cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and
what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their
children which they have born?
031:044 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou;
and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
031:045 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
031:046 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took
stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the
heap.
031:047 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it
Galeed.
031:048 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee
this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
031:049 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee,
when we are absent one from another.
031:050 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take
other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God
is witness betwixt me and thee.
031:051 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this
pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
031:052 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will
not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass
over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
031:053 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their
father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his
father Isaac.
031:054 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his
brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all
night in the mount.
031:055 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons
and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and
returned unto his place.
032:001 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
032:002 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he
called the name of that place Mahanaim.
032:003 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto
the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
032:004 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my
lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with
Laban, and stayed there until now:
032:005 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and
womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may
find grace in thy sight.
032:006 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy
brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four
hundred men with him.
032:007 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided
the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and
the camels, into two bands;
032:008 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then
the other company which is left shall escape.
032:009 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my
father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy
country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
032:010 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all
the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with
my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two
bands.
032:011 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the
hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me,
and the mother with the children.
032:012 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed
as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for
multitude.
032:013 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which
came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
032:014 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes,
and twenty rams,
032:015 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten
bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
032:016 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every
drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over
before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
032:017 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother
meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and
whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
032:018 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a
present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind
us.
032:019 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that
followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak
unto Esau, when ye find him.
032:020 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us.
For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth
before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he
will accept of me.
032:021 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that
night in the company.
032:022 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford
Jabbok.
032:023 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
that he had.
032:024 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day.
032:025 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched
the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was
out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
032:026 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I
will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
032:027 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
032:028 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but
Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,
and hast prevailed.
032:029 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.
And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?
And he blessed him there.
032:030 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen
God face to face, and my life is preserved.
032:031 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he
halted upon his thigh.
032:032 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which
shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day:
because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew
that shrank.
033:001 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau
came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the
children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
handmaids.
033:002 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah
and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
033:003 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the
ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
033:004 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his
neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
033:005 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children;
and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children
which God hath graciously given thy servant.
033:006 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and
they bowed themselves.
033:007 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed
themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they
bowed themselves.
033:008 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met?
And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
033:009 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast
unto thyself.
033:010 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in
thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I
have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and
thou wast pleased with me.
033:011 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee;
because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have
enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
033:012 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I
will go before thee.
033:013 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are
tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and
if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
033:014 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I
will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before
me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my
lord unto Seir.
033:015 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk
that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find
grace in the sight of my lord.
033:016 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
033:017 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and
made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is
called Succoth.
033:018 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the
land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his
tent before the city.
033:019 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his
tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father,
for an hundred pieces of money.
033:020 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.
034:001 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob,
went out to see the daughters of the land.
034:002 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the
country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled
her.
034:003 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he
loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
034:004 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this
damsel to wife.
034:005 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now
his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his
peace until they were come.
034:006 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune
with him.
034:007 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard
it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth,
because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's
daughter: which thing ought not to be done.
034:008 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son
Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to
wife.
034:009 And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto
us, and take our daughters unto you.
034:010 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you;
dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
034:011 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me
find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will
give.
034:012 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according
as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
034:013 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father
deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their
sister:
034:014 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our
sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach
unto us:
034:015 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be,
that every male of you be circumcised;
034:016 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take
your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will
become one people.
034:017 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then
will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
034:018 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
034:019 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had
delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than
all the house of his father.
034:020 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
034:021 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in
the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large
enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives,
and let us give them our daughters.
034:022 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us,
to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as
they are circumcised.
034:023 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of
their's be our's? only let us consent unto them, and they will
dwell with us.
034:024 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that
went out of the gate of his city; and every male was
circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
034:025 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore,
that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's
brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city
boldly, and slew all the males.
034:026 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the
sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
034:027 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city,
because they had defiled their sister.
034:028 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and
that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
034:029 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their
wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the
house.
034:030 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make
me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the
Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they
shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and
I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
034:031 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an
harlot?
035:001 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell
there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto
thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
035:002 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with
him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be
clean, and change your garments:
035:003 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there
an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress,
and was with me in the way which I went.
035:004 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in
their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears;
and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
035:005 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities
that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the
sons of Jacob.
035:006 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is,
Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
035:007 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel:
because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the
face of his brother.
035:008 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called
Allonbachuth.
035:009 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of
Padanaram, and blessed him.
035:010 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not
be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he
called his name Israel.
035:011 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and
multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee,
and kings shall come out of thy loins;
035:012 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will
give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
035:013 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with
him.
035:014 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with
him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering
thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
035:015 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with
him, Bethel.
035:016 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way
to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard
labour.
035:017 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the
midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son
also.
035:018 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she
died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called
him Benjamin.
035:019 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which
is Bethlehem.
035:020 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of
Rachel's grave unto this day.
035:021 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of
Edar.
035:022 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that
Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and
Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
035:023 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and
Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
035:024 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
035:025 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
035:026 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these
are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
035:027 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city
of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
035:028 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
035:029 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto
his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and
Jacob buried him.
036:001 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
036:002 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the
daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of
Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
036:003 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
036:004 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
036:005 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are
the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of
Canaan.
036:006 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and
all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his
beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of
Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother
Jacob.
036:007 For their riches were more than that they might dwell
together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not
bear them because of their cattle.
036:008 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
036:009 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the
Edomites in mount Seir:
036:010 These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah
the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
036:011 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam,
and Kenaz.
036:012 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to
Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
036:013 And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah,
and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
036:014 And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah
the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau
Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
036:015 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the
firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke
Kenaz,
036:016 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes
that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons
of Adah.
036:017 And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke
Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that
came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of
Bashemath Esau's wife.
036:018 And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush,
duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
036:019 These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their
dukes.
036:020 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land;
Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
036:021 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the
Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
036:022 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's
sister was Timna.
036:023 And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath,
and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
036:024 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah:
this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as
he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
036:025 And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah
the daughter of Anah.
036:026 And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and
Ithran, and Cheran.
036:027 The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.
036:028 The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
036:029 These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke
Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
036:030 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these are the dukes that
came of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir.
036:031 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom,
before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
036:032 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his
city was Dinhabah.
036:033 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in
his stead.
036:034 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in
his stead.
036:035 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian
in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of
his city was Avith.
036:036 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
036:037 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in
his stead.
036:038 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his
stead.
036:039 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his
stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name
was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of
Mezahab.
036:040 And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau,
according to their families, after their places, by their
names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
036:041 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
036:042 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
036:043 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according
to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is
Esau the father of the Edomites.
037:001 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger,
in the land of Canaan.
037:002 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen
years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the
lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah,
his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their
evil report.
037:003 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many
colours.
037:004 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more
than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak
peaceably unto him.
037:005 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and
they hated him yet the more.
037:006 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I
have dreamed:
037:007 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my
sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves
stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
037:008 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us?
or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him
yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
037:009 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren,
and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold,
the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to
me.
037:010 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his
father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that
thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren
indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
037:011 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the
saying.
037:012 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
037:013 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the
flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he
said to him, Here am I.
037:014 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well
with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word
again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came
to Shechem.
037:015 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in
the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
037:016 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where
they feed their flocks.
037:017 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them
say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren,
and found them in Dothan.
037:018 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto
them, they conspired against him to slay him.
037:019 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
037:020 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into
some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him:
and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
037:021 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands;
and said, Let us not kill him.
037:022 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into
this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him;
that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to
his father again.
037:023 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren,
that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many
colours that was on him;
037:024 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was
empty, there was no water in it.
037:025 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes
and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from
Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh,
going to carry it down to Egypt.
037:026 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay
our brother, and conceal his blood?
037:027 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our
hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his
brethren were content.
037:028 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and
lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the
Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought
Joseph into Egypt.
037:029 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not
in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
037:030 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not;
and I, whither shall I go?
037:031 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats,
and dipped the coat in the blood;
037:032 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to
their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether
it be thy son's coat or no.
037:033 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast
hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
037:034 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins,
and mourned for his son many days.
037:035 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him;
but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go
down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept
for him.
037:036 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an
officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
038:001 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from
his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose
name was Hirah.
038:002 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose
name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
038:003 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
038:004 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his
name Onan.
038:005 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his
name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
038:006 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was
Tamar.
038:007 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the
LORD; and the LORD slew him.
038:008 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and
marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
038:009 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to
pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled
it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his
brother.
038:010 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he
slew him also.
038:011 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow
at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he
said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And
Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
038:012 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife
died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his
sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the
Adullamite.
038:013 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth
up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
038:014 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her
with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place,
which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was
grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
038:015 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because
she had covered her face.
038:016 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray
thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was
his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me,
that thou mayest come in unto me?
038:017 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she
said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
038:018 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy
signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine
hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she
conceived by him.
038:019 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her,
and put on the garments of her widowhood.
038:020 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the
Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but
he found her not.
038:021 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the
harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There
was no harlot in this place.
038:022 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and
also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in
this place.
038:023 And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed:
behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
038:024 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told
Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the
harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And
Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
038:025 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law,
saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she
said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and
bracelets, and staff.
038:026 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more
righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my
son. And he knew her again no more.
038:027 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold,
twins were in her womb.
038:028 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out
his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a
scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
038:029 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold,
his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken
forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called
Pharez.
038:030 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet
thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
039:001 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer
of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of
the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down
thither.
039:002 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and
he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
039:003 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the
LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
039:004 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he
made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put
into his hand.
039:005 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him
overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD
blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the
blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house,
and in the field.
039:006 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not
ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was
a goodly person, and well favoured.
039:007 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife
cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
039:008 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my
master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath
committed all that he hath to my hand;
039:009 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he
kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his
wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against
God?
039:010 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that
he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
039:011 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the
house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the
house there within.
039:012 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he
left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
039:013 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment
in her hand, and was fled forth,
039:014 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto
them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to
mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a
loud voice:
039:015 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice
and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got
him out.
039:016 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
039:017 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The
Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto
me to mock me:
039:018 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that
he left his garment with me, and fled out.
039:019 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his
wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did
thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
039:020 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a
place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there
in the prison.
039:021 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave
him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
039:022 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all
the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did
there, he was the doer of it.
039:023 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was
under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which
he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
040:001 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the
king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king
of Egypt.
040:002 And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the
chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
040:003 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the
guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
040:004 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he
served them: and they continued a season in ward.
040:005 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in
one night, each man according to the interpretation of his
dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which
were bound in the prison.
040:006 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon
them, and, behold, they were sad.
040:007 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward
of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to
day?
040:008 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is
no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not
interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
040:009 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to
him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
040:010 And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it
budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof
brought forth ripe grapes:
040:011 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and
pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand.
040:012 And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it:
The three branches are three days:
040:013 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and
restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's
cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his
butler.
040:014 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew
kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto
Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
040:015 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews:
and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into
the dungeon.
040:016 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he
said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had
three white baskets on my head:
040:017 And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of
bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the
basket upon my head.
040:018 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation
thereof: The three baskets are three days:
040:019 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off
thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat
thy flesh from off thee.
040:020 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's
birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he
lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker
among his servants.
040:021 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again;
and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
040:022 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to
them.
040:023 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
041:001 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh
dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
041:002 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well
favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
041:003 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the
river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other
kine upon the brink of the river.
041:004 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven
well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
041:005 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven
ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
041:006 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind
sprung up after them.
041:007 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears.
And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
041:008 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was
troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of
Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his
dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto
Pharaoh.
041:009 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do
remember my faults this day:
041:010 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the
captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
041:011 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each
man according to the interpretation of his dream.
041:012 And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to
the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted
to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did
interpret.
041:013 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he
restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
041:014 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed
his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
041:015 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and
there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of
thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
041:016 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God
shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
041:017 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood
upon the bank of the river:
041:018 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine,
fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
041:019 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and
very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all
the land of Egypt for badness:
041:020 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first
seven fat kine:
041:021 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that
they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at
the beginning. So I awoke.
041:022 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one
stalk, full and good:
041:023 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the
east wind, sprung up after them:
041:024 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told
this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare
it to me.
041:025 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God
hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
041:026 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears
are seven years: the dream is one.
041:027 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after
them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with
the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
041:028 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God
is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
041:029 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all
the land of Egypt:
041:030 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and
all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and
the famine shall consume the land;
041:031 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of
that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
041:032 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is
because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly
bring it to pass.
041:033 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise,
and set him over the land of Egypt.
041:034 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the
land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the
seven plenteous years.
041:035 And let them gather all the food of those good years that
come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them
keep food in the cities.
041:036 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven
years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the
land perish not through the famine.
041:037 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes
of all his servants.
041:038 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as
this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
041:039 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed
thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
041:040 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall
all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater
than thou.
041:041 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all
the land of Egypt.
041:042 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon
Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and
put a gold chain about his neck;
041:043 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had;
and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler
over all the land of Egypt.
041:044 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee
shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of
Egypt.
041:045 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave
him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.
And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
041:046 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh
king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of
Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
041:047 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by
handfuls.
041:048 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were
in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the
food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he
up in the same.
041:049 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much,
until he left numbering; for it was without number.
041:050 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine
came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On
bare unto him.
041:051 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God,
said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's
house.
041:052 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath
caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
041:053 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of
Egypt, were ended.
041:054 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as
Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all
the land of Egypt there was bread.
041:055 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried
to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians,
Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
041:056 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph
opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and
the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
041:057 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn;
because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
042:001 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said
unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
042:002 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt:
get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may
live, and not die.
042:003 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
042:004 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his
brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
042:005 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came:
for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
042:006 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that
sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren
came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to
the earth.
042:007 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he
said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land
of Canaan to buy food.
042:008 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
042:009 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and
said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land
ye are come.
042:010 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy
servants come.
042:011 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are
no spies.
042:012 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the
land ye are come.
042:013 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of
one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is
this day with our father, and one is not.
042:014 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you,
saying, Ye are spies:
042:015 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not
go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
042:016 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall
be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether
there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh
surely ye are spies.
042:017 And he put them all together into ward three days.
042:018 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live;
for I fear God:
042:019 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the
house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your
houses:
042:020 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words
be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
042:021 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning
our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he
besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress
come upon us.
042:022 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you,
saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear?
therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
042:023 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake
unto them by an interpreter.
042:024 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned
to them again, and communed with them, and took from them
Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
042:025 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to
restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them
provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
042:026 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
042:027 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender
in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his
sack's mouth.
042:028 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo,
it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they
were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath
done unto us?
042:029 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan,
and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
042:030 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and
took us for spies of the country.
042:031 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
042:032 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the
youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
042:033 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby
shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren
here with me, and take food for the famine of your households,
and be gone:
042:034 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know
that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I
deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
042:035 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold,
every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both
they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were
afraid.
042:036 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of
my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will
take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
042:037 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if
I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will
bring him to thee again.
042:038 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his
brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him
by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
043:001 And the famine was sore in the land.
043:002 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which
they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go
again, buy us a little food.
043:003 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest
unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother
be with you.
043:004 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy
thee food:
043:005 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the
man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your
brother be with you.
043:006 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell
the man whether ye had yet a brother?
043:007 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of
our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another
brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these
words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your
brother down?
043:008 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me,
and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both
we, and thou, and also our little ones.
043:009 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him:
if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then
let me bear the blame for ever:
043:010 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this
second time.
043:011 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now,
do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels,
and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little
honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
043:012 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was
brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in
your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
043:013 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
043:014 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may
send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved
of my children, I am bereaved.
043:015 And the men took that present, and they took double money in
their hand and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt,
and stood before Joseph.
043:016 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler
of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready;
for these men shall dine with me at noon.
043:017 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men
into Joseph's house.
043:018 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into
Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was
returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in;
that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and
take us for bondmen, and our asses.
043:019 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they
communed with him at the door of the house,
043:020 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy
food:
043:021 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened
our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of
his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it
again in our hand.
043:022 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food:
we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
043:023 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God
of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had
your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
043:024 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them
water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses
provender.
043:025 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon:
for they heard that they should eat bread there.
043:026 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which
was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him
to the earth.
043:027 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father
well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
043:028 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health,
he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made
obeisance.
043:029 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his
mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom
ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my
son.
043:030 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his
brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his
chamber, and wept there.
043:031 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself,
and said, Set on bread.
043:032 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by
themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by
themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the
Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
043:033 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his
birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the
men marvelled one at another.
043:034 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but
Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of their's. And
they drank, and were merry with him.
044:001 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the
men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put
every man's money in his sack's mouth.
044:002 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the
youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word
that Joseph had spoken.
044:003 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they
and their asses.
044:004 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off,
Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and
when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye
rewarded evil for good?
044:005 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed
he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
044:006 And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
044:007 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words?
God forbid that thy servants should do according to this
thing:
044:008 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we
brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then
should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
044:009 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die,
and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
044:010 And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he
with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be
blameless.
044:011 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground,
and opened every man his sack.
044:012 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the
youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
044:013 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and
returned to the city.
044:014 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was
yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
044:015 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have
done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
044:016 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we
speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the
iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants,
both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
044:017 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in
whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as
for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
044:018 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy
servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let
not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as
Pharaoh.
044:019 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a
brother?
044:020 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a
child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead,
and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
044:021 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me,
that I may set mine eyes upon him.
044:022 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for
if he should leave his father, his father would die.
044:023 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest
brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
044:024 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my
father, we told him the words of my lord.
044:025 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
044:026 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be
with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's
face, except our youngest brother be with us.
044:027 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife
bare me two sons:
044:028 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in
pieces; and I saw him not since:
044:029 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye
shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
044:030 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the
lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the
lad's life;
044:031 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with
us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the
gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
044:032 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,
saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the
blame to my father for ever.
044:033 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of
the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his
brethren.
044:034 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with
me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my
father.
045:001 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that
stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself
known unto his brethren.
045:002 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
heard.
045:003 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father
yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
troubled at his presence.
045:004 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray
you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your
brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
045:005 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that
ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve
life.
045:006 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet
there are five years, in the which there shall neither be
earing nor harvest.
045:007 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the
earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
045:008 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he
hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house,
and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
045:009 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith
thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down
unto me, tarry not:
045:010 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be
near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's
children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou
hast:
045:011 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of
famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast,
come to poverty.
045:012 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother
Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
045:013 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of
all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my
father hither.
045:014 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and
Benjamin wept upon his neck.
045:015 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and
after that his brethren talked with him.
045:016 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,
Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and
his servants.
045:017 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do
ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
045:018 And take your father and your households, and come unto me:
and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye
shall eat the fat of the land.
045:019 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the
land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and
bring your father, and come.
045:020 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of
Egypt is your's.
045:021 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them
wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
provision for the way.
045:022 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five
changes of raiment.
045:023 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden
with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with
corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
045:024 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said
unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
045:025 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of
Canaan unto Jacob their father,
045:026 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor
over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he
believed them not.
045:027 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said
unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to
carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
045:028 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I
will go and see him before I die.
046:001 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to
Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father
Isaac.
046:002 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and
said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
046:003 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go
down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
046:004 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely
bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine
eyes.
046:005 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel
carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their
wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
046:006 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had
gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and
all his seed with him:
046:007 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his
sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into
Egypt.
046:008 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
046:009 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and
Carmi.
046:010 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
046:011 And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
046:012 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez,
and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the
sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
046:013 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and
Shimron.
046:014 And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
046:015 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in
Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons
and his daughters were thirty and three.
046:016 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon,
Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
046:017 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and
Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber,
and Malchiel.
046:018 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his
daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
046:019 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
046:020 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and
Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On
bare unto him.
046:021 And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel,
Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
046:022 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all
the souls were fourteen.
046:023 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
046:024 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
Shillem.
046:025 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his
daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were
seven.
046:026 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out
of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were
threescore and six;
046:027 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two
souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into
Egypt, were threescore and ten.
046:028 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face
unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.
046:029 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel
his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he
fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
046:030 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen
thy face, because thou art yet alive.
046:031 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's
house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My
brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of
Canaan, are come unto me;
046:032 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed
cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have.
046:033 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and
shall say, What is your occupation?
046:034 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle
from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers:
that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is
an abomination unto the Egyptians.
047:001 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my
brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they
have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they
are in the land of Goshen.
047:002 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented
them unto Pharaoh.
047:003 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation?
And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both
we, and also our fathers.
047:004 They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are
we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks;
for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore,
we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
047:005 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy
brethren are come unto thee:
047:006 The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make
thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let
them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among
them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
047:007 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before
Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
047:008 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
047:009 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my
pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have
the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained
unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the
days of their pilgrimage.
047:010 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
047:011 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a
possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in
the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
047:012 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his
father's household, with bread, according to their families.
047:013 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was
very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of
Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
047:014 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the
land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which
they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's
house.
047:015 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us
bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money
faileth.
047:016 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for
your cattle, if money fail.
047:017 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave
them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for
the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them
with bread for all their cattle for that year.
047:018 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,
and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that
our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle;
there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our
bodies, and our lands:
047:019 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our
land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will
be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live,
and not die, that the land be not desolate.
047:020 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the
Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine
prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
047:021 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end
of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
047:022 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests
had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their
portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their
lands.
047:023 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you
this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you,
and ye shall sow the land.
047:024 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give
the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own,
for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your
households, and for food for your little ones.
047:025 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in
the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
047:026 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day,
that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except the land of
the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
047:027 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of
Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and
multiplied exceedingly.
047:028 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the
whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
047:029 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his
son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in
thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal
kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
047:030 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of
Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will
do as thou hast said.
047:031 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel
bowed himself upon the bed's head.
048:001 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph,
Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons,
Manasseh and Ephraim.
048:002 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh
unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the
bed.
048:003 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at
Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
048:004 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people;
and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an
everlasting possession.
048:005 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born
unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into
Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
048:006 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be
thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in
their inheritance.
048:007 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in
the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little
way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of
Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
048:008 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
048:009 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God
hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray
thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
048:010 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not
see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them,
and embraced them.
048:011 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy
face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
048:012 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he
bowed himself with his face to the earth.
048:013 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward
Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward
Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
048:014 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon
Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon
Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was
the firstborn.
048:015 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers
Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life
long unto this day,
048:016 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and
let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers
Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the
midst of the earth.
048:017 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon
the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his
father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto
Manasseh's head.
048:018 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this
is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
048:019 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know
it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great:
but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and
his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
048:020 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel
bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and
he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
048:021 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be
with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
048:022 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren,
which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and
with my bow.
049:001 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in
the last days.
049:002 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father.
049:003 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of
my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
power:
049:004 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest
up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to
my couch.
049:005 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in
their habitations.
049:006 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their
assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger
they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a
wall.
049:007 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for
it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in
Israel.
049:008 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand
shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children
shall bow down before thee.
049:009 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone
up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion;
who shall rouse him up?
049:010 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be.
049:011 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the
choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes
in the blood of grapes:
049:012 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with
milk.
049:013 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be
for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
049:014 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
049:015 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was
pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant
unto tribute.
049:016 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
049:017 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that
biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
049:018 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
049:019 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the
last.
049:020 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal
dainties.
049:021 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
049:022 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:
049:023 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and
hated him:
049:024 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from
thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
049:025 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the
Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the
breasts, and of the womb:
049:026 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings
of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting
hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown
of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
049:027 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour
the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
049:028 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that
their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one
according to his blessing he blessed them.
049:029 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered
unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in
the field of Ephron the Hittite,
049:030 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before
Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the
field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a
buryingplace.
049:031 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they
buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
049:032 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was
from the children of Heth.
049:033 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost,
and was gathered unto his people.
050:001 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and
kissed him.
050:002 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
050:003 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled
the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians
mourned for him threescore and ten days.
050:004 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto
the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in
your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
050:005 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which
I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou
bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my
father, and I will come again.
050:006 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he
made thee swear.
050:007 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up
all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all
the elders of the land of Egypt,
050:008 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his
father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and
their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
050:009 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it
was a very great company.
050:010 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond
Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore
lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
050:011 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the
mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous
mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called
Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
050:012 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
050:013 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried
him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham
bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of
Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
050:014 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all
that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried
his father.
050:015 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,
they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will
certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
050:016 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did
command before he died, saying,
050:017 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the
trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto
thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the
servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they
spake unto him.
050:018 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and
they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
050:019 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of
God?
050:020 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it
unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much
people alive.
050:021 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little
ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
050:022 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and
Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
050:023 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the
children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up
upon Joseph's knees.
050:024 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely
visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which
he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
050:025 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God
will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from
hence.
050:026 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Book 02 Exodus
001:001 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
001:002 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
001:003 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
001:004 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
001:005 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were
seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
001:006 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that
generation.
001:007 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and
the land was filled with them.
001:008 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not
Joseph.
001:009 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the
children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
001:010 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and
it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they
join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get
them up out of the land.
001:011 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them
with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure
cities, Pithom and Raamses.
001:012 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and
grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
001:013 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with
rigour:
001:014 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter,
and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all
their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
001:015 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which
the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other
Puah:
001:016 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew
women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye
shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
001:017 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt
commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
001:018 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto
them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men
children alive?
001:019 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women
are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are
delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
001:020 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people
multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
001:021 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he
made them houses.
001:022 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is
born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall
save alive.
002:001 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a
daughter of Levi.
002:002 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him
that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
002:003 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an
ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and
put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the
river's brink.
002:004 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to
him.
002:005 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the
river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and
when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to
fetch it.
002:006 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold,
the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This
is one of the Hebrews' children.
002:007 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and
call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse
the child for thee?
002:008 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
called the child's mother.
002:009 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away,
and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the
women took the child, and nursed it.
002:010 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's
daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name
Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
002:011 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that
he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens:
and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his
brethren.
002:012 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that
there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the
sand.
002:013 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the
wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
002:014 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And
Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
002:015 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land
of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
002:016 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came
and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's
flock.
002:017 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up
and helped them, and watered their flock.
002:018 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it
that ye are come so soon to day?
002:019 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the
shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the
flock.
002:020 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it
that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
002:021 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses
Zipporah his daughter.
002:022 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he
said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
002:023 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt
died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the
bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by
reason of the bondage.
002:024 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
002:025 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had
respect unto them.
003:001 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the
priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the
desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
003:002 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire
out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the
bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
003:003 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great
sight, why the bush is not burnt.
003:004 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called
unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses.
And he said, Here am I.
003:005 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off
thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
003:006 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid
his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
003:007 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my
people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason
of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
003:008 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good
land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;
unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites.
003:009 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is
come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith
the Egyptians oppress them.
003:010 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that
thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out
of Egypt.
003:011 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto
Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel
out of Egypt?
003:012 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be
a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast
brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon
this mountain.
003:013 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children
of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers
hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his
name? what shall I say unto them?
003:014 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus
shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me
unto you.
003:015 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me
unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial
unto all generations.
003:016 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto
them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of
Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely
visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
003:017 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of
Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and
the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
003:018 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou
and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall
say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us:
and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into
the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
003:019 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no,
not by a mighty hand.
003:020 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my
wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that
he will let you go.
003:021 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye
shall not go empty.
003:022 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that
sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold,
and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon
your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
004:001 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not
believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The
LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
004:002 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he
said, A rod.
004:003 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the
ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before
it.
004:004 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take
it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and
it became a rod in his hand:
004:005 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
appeared unto thee.
004:006 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand
into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when
he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
004:007 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put
his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his
bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
004:008 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee,
neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will
believe the voice of the latter sign.
004:009 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these
two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt
take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land:
and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become
blood upon the dry land.
004:010 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent,
neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy
servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
004:011 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who
maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have
not I the LORD?
004:012 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee
what thou shalt say.
004:013 And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him
whom thou wilt send.
004:014 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he
said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can
speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee:
and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
004:015 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and
I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach
you what ye shall do.
004:016 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall
be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou
shalt be to him instead of God.
004:017 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou
shalt do signs.
004:018 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and
said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my
brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet
alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
004:019 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt:
for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
004:020 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an
ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the
rod of God in his hand.
004:021 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh,
which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart,
that he shall not let the people go.
004:022 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel
is my son, even my firstborn:
004:023 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and
if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son,
even thy firstborn.
004:024 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met
him, and sought to kill him.
004:025 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of
her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody
husband art thou to me.
004:026 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art,
because of the circumcision.
004:027 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet
Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and
kissed him.
004:028 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent
him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
004:029 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders
of the children of Israel:
004:030 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto
Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
004:031 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had
visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon
their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
005:001 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may
hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
005:002 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his
voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I
let Israel go.
005:003 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us
go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and
sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with
pestilence, or with the sword.
005:004 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses
and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your
burdens.
005:005 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many,
and ye make them rest from their burdens.
005:006 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the
people, and their officers, saying,
005:007 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as
heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
005:008 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye
shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for
they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and
sacrifice to our God.
005:009 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour
therein; and let them not regard vain words.
005:010 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their
officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith
Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
005:011 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of
your work shall be diminished.
005:012 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of
Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
005:013 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works,
your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
005:014 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's
taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded,
Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both
yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
005:015 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried
unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy
servants?
005:016 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us,
Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the
fault is in thine own people.
005:017 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let
us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
005:018 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given
you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
005:019 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they
were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish
ought from your bricks of your daily task.
005:020 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
came forth from Pharaoh:
005:021 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge;
because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in
their hand to slay us.
005:022 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore
hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou
hast sent me?
005:023 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done
evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at
all.
006:001 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will
do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go,
and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
006:002 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:
006:003 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by
the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not
known to them.
006:004 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give
them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein
they were strangers.
006:005 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel,
whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my
covenant.
006:006 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and
I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians,
and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you
with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
006:007 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a
God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which
bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
006:008 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I
did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I
will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
006:009 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel
bondage.
006:010 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
006:011 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
006:012 And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children
of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh
hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
006:013 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a
charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt.
006:014 These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of
Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and
Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
006:015 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman:
these are the families of Simeon.
006:016 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their
generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of
the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
006:017 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their
families.
006:018 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred
thirty and three years.
006:019 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the
families of Levi according to their generations.
006:020 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and
she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of
Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
006:021 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
006:022 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
006:023 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of
Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar,
and Ithamar.
006:024 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these
are the families of the Korhites.
006:025 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of
Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads
of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
006:026 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring
out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to
their armies.
006:027 These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring
out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses
and Aaron.
006:028 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses
in the land of Egypt,
006:029 That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am the LORD: speak
thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
006:030 And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised
lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
007:001 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to
Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
007:002 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy
brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of
Israel out of his land.
007:003 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and
my wonders in the land of Egypt.
007:004 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand
upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the
children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great
judgments.
007:005 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I
stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children
of Israel from among them.
007:006 And Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them, so did
they.
007:007 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and
three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
007:008 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
007:009 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for
you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it
before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
007:010 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as
the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before
Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
007:011 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now
the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with
their enchantments.
007:012 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became
serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
007:013 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto
them; as the LORD had said.
007:014 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he
refuseth to let the people go.
007:015 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto
the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against
he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou
take in thine hand.
007:016 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath
sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may
serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou
wouldest not hear.
007:017 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the
LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand
upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be
turned to blood.
007:018 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river
shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the
water of the river.
007:019 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod,
and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon
their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and
upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and
that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both
in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
007:020 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he
lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the
river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his
servants; and all the waters that were in the river were
turned to blood.
007:021 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank,
and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river;
and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
007:022 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto
them; as the LORD had said.
007:023 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set
his heart to this also.
007:024 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water
to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
007:025 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten
the river.
008:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may
serve me.
008:002 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all
thy borders with frogs:
008:003 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall
go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and
upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy
people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
008:004 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people,
and upon all thy servants.
008:005 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth
thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and
over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of
Egypt.
008:006 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and
the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
008:007 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought
up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
008:008 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the
LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my
people; and I will let the people go, that they may do
sacrifice unto the LORD.
008:009 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I
intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to
destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may
remain in the river only?
008:010 And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy
word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the
LORD our God.
008:011 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and
from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in
the river only.
008:012 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried
unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought
against Pharaoh.
008:013 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs
died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the
fields.
008:014 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land
stank.
008:015 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his
heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
008:016 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy
rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice
throughout all the land of Egypt.
008:017 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his
rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in
man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice
throughout all the land of Egypt.
008:018 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring
forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man,
and upon beast.
008:019 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of
God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not
unto them; as the LORD had said.
008:020 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water;
and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that
they may serve me.
008:021 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send
swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy
people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians
shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon
they are.
008:022 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my
people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the
end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the
earth.
008:023 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to
morrow shall this sign be.
008:024 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies
into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and
into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason
of the swarm of flies.
008:025 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye,
sacrifice to your God in the land.
008:026 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall
sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our
God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
008:027 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and
sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
008:028 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to
the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very
far away: intreat for me.
008:029 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat
the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh,
from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not
Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go
to sacrifice to the LORD.
008:030 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
008:031 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he
removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants,
and from his people; there remained not one.
008:032 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither
would he let the people go.
009:001 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell
him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go,
that they may serve me.
009:002 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
009:003 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in
the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels,
upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very
grievous murrain.
009:004 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the
cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is
the children's of Israel.
009:005 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD
shall do this thing in the land.
009:006 And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle
of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel
died not one.
009:007 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle
of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened,
and he did not let the people go.
009:008 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you
handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it
toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
009:009 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and
shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon
beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
009:010 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh;
and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil
breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
009:011 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the
boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the
Egyptians.
009:012 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened
not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
009:013 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning,
and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the
LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve
me.
009:014 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart,
and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest
know that there is none like me in all the earth.
009:015 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and
thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the
earth.
009:016 And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to
shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared
throughout all the earth.
009:017 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt
not let them go?
009:018 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a
very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the
foundation thereof even until now.
009:019 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou
hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be
found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail
shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
009:020 He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of
Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
009:021 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his
servants and his cattle in the field.
009:022 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward
heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon
man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field,
throughout the land of Egypt.
009:023 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD
sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground;
and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
009:024 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very
grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of
Egypt since it became a nation.
009:025 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that
was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every
herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
009:026 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were,
was there no hail.
009:027 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said
unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and
I and my people are wicked.
009:028 Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more
mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye
shall stay no longer.
009:029 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city,
I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder
shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou
mayest know how that the earth is the LORD's.
009:030 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet
fear the LORD God.
009:031 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in
the ear, and the flax was bolled.
009:032 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not
grown up.
009:033 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad
his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and
the rain was not poured upon the earth.
009:034 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the
thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his
heart, he and his servants.
009:035 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let
the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
010:001 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have
hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I
might shew these my signs before him:
010:002 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy
son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs
which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am
the LORD.
010:003 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou
refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that
they may serve me.
010:004 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow
will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
010:005 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be
able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that
which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and
shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
010:006 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy
servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither
thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day
that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned
himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
010:007 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man
be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the
LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
010:008 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he
said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they
that shall go?
010:009 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old,
with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with
our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
010:010 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will
let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is
before you.
010:011 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that
ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's
presence.
010:012 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the
land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the
land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that
the hail hath left.
010:013 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and
the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and
all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought
the locusts.
010:014 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested
in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before
them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them
shall be such.
010:015 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land
was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all
the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there
remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of
the field, through all the land of Egypt.
010:016 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said,
I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
010:017 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and
intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this
death only.
010:018 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
010:019 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away
the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained
not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
010:020 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not
let the children of Israel go.
010:021 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward
heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt,
even darkness which may be felt.
010:022 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there
was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
010:023 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for
three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their
dwellings.
010:024 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the
LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your
little ones also go with you.
010:025 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt
offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
010:026 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be
left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our
God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until
we come thither.
010:027 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let
them go.
010:028 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to
thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my
face thou shalt die.
010:029 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face
again no more.
011:001 And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more
upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go
hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you
out hence altogether.
011:002 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow
of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of
silver and jewels of gold.
011:003 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land
of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight
of the people.
011:004 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go
out into the midst of Egypt:
011:005 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the
first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto
the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and
all the firstborn of beasts.
011:006 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of
Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it
any more.
011:007 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move
his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that
the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and
Israel.
011:008 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow
down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the
people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he
went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
011:009 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto
you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
011:010 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and
the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let
the children of Israel go out of his land.
012:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt
saying,
012:002 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall
be the first month of the year to you.
012:003 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the
tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a
lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an
house:
012:004 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and
his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the
number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall
make your count for the lamb.
012:005 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year:
ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
012:006 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same
month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it in the evening.
012:007 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two
side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein
they shall eat it.
012:008 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire,
and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
012:009 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast
with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance
thereof.
012:010 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and
that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn
with fire.
012:011 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes
on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it
in haste: it is the LORD's passover.
012:012 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will
smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and
beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute
judgment: I am the LORD.
012:013 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses
where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I
smite the land of Egypt.
012:014 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall
keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye
shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
012:015 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day
ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever
eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh
day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
012:016 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and
in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you;
no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every
man must eat, that only may be done of you.
012:017 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in
this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land
of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your
generations by an ordinance for ever.
012:018 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at
even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and
twentieth day of the month at even.
012:019 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for
whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall
be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a
stranger, or born in the land.
012:020 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall
ye eat unleavened bread.
012:021 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto
them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families,
and kill the passover.
012:022 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood
that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side
posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you
shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
012:023 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and
when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side
posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer
the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
012:024 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and
to thy sons for ever.
012:025 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which
the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye
shall keep this service.
012:026 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto
you, What mean ye by this service?
012:027 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover,
who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt,
when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the
people bowed the head and worshipped.
012:028 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
012:029 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh
that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that
was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
012:030 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants,
and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for
there was not a house where there was not one dead.
012:031 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up,
and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the
children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
012:032 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be
gone; and bless me also.
012:033 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might
send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all
dead men.
012:034 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their
kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their
shoulders.
012:035 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses;
and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and
jewels of gold, and raiment:
012:036 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they
required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
012:037 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth,
about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside
children.
012:038 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and
herds, even very much cattle.
012:039 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they
brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because
they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither
had they prepared for themselves any victual.
012:040 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
012:041 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty
years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the
hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
012:042 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing
them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the
LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their
generations.
012:043 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance
of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
012:044 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou
hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
012:045 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
012:046 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth
ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye
break a bone thereof.
012:047 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
012:048 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the
passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and
then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one
that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall
eat thereof.
012:049 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the
stranger that sojourneth among you.
012:050 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they.
012:051 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their
armies.
013:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
013:002 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the
womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast:
it is mine.
013:003 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye
came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by
strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place:
there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
013:004 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
013:005 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land
of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to
give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt
keep this service in this month.
013:006 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh
day shall be a feast to the LORD.
013:007 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no
leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be
leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
013:008 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done
because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth
out of Egypt.
013:009 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for
a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in
thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee
out of Egypt.
013:010 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from
year to year.
013:011 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land
of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers,
and shall give it thee,
013:012 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the
matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou
hast; the males shall be the LORD's.
013:013 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb;
and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his
neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt
thou redeem.
013:014 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,
saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By
strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the
house of bondage:
013:015 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that
the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the
firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I
sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being
males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
013:016 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets
between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought
us forth out of Egypt.
013:017 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that
God led them not through the way of the land of the
Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest
peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they
return to Egypt:
013:018 But God led the people about, through the way of the
wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up
harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
013:019 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had
straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely
visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
013:020 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in
Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
013:021 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud,
to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to
give them light; to go by day and night:
013:022 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the
pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
014:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
014:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp
before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against
Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
014:003 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are
entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
014:004 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after
them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they
did so.
014:005 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and
the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against
the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have
let Israel go from serving us?
014:006 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
014:007 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots
of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
014:008 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of
Israel went out with an high hand.
014:009 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and
chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and
overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before
Baalzephon.
014:010 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up
their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and
they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out
unto the LORD.
014:011 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in
Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out
of Egypt?
014:012 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying,
Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been
better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die
in the wilderness.
014:013 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and
see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to
day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see
them again no more for ever.
014:014 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
014:015 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me?
speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
014:016 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the
sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry
ground through the midst of the sea.
014:017 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and
they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh,
and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
014:018 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
014:019 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel,
removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went
from before their face, and stood behind them:
014:020 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of
Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave
light by night to these: so that the one came not near the
other all the night.
014:021 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD
caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that
night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
014:022 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon
the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their
right hand, and on their left.
014:023 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst
of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his
horsemen.
014:024 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked
unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and
of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
014:025 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them
heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face
of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the
Egyptians.
014:026 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the
sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon
their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
014:027 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea
returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the
Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
014:028 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the
horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea
after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
014:029 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst
of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their
right hand, and on their left.
014:030 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea
shore.
014:031 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the
Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the
LORD, and his servant Moses.
015:001 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the
LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he
hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he
thrown into the sea.
015:002 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my
salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation;
my father's God, and I will exalt him.
015:003 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
015:004 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his
chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
015:005 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a
stone.
015:006 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right
hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
015:007 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown
them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath,
which consumed them as stubble.
015:008 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered
together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths
were congealed in the heart of the sea.
015:009 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide
the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw
my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
015:010 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank
as lead in the mighty waters.
015:011 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like
thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
015:012 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
015:013 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast
redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy
habitation.
015:014 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold
on the inhabitants of Palestina.
015:015 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of
Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants
of Canaan shall melt away.
015:016 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine
arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass
over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast
purchased.
015:017 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of
thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made
for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy
hands have established.
015:018 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
015:019 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with
his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the
waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went
on dry land in the midst of the sea.
015:020 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel
in her hand; and all the women went out after her with
timbrels and with dances.
015:021 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath
triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown
into the sea.
015:022 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out
into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the
wilderness, and found no water.
015:023 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the
waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of
it was called Marah.
015:024 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we
drink?
015:025 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree,
which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made
sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and
there he proved them,
015:026 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the
LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight,
and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his
statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I
have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that
healeth thee.
015:027 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and
threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the
waters.
016:001 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the
congregation of the children of Israel came unto the
wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the
fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of
the land of Egypt.
016:002 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
016:003 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had
died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat
by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for
ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this
whole assembly with hunger.
016:004 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from
heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a
certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they
will walk in my law, or no.
016:005 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall
prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as
much as they gather daily.
016:006 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At
even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out
from the land of Egypt:
016:007 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD;
for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what
are we, that ye murmur against us?
016:008 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in
the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the
full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye
murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not
against us, but against the LORD.
016:009 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of
the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath
heard your murmurings.
016:010 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked
toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD
appeared in the cloud.
016:011 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
016:012 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak
unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the
morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that
I am the LORD your God.
016:013 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and
covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about
the host.
016:014 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face
of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as
the hoar frost on the ground.
016:015 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to
another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses
said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given
you to eat.
016:016 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it
every man according to his eating, an omer for every man,
according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for
them which are in his tents.
016:017 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more,
some less.
016:018 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much
had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack;
they gathered every man according to his eating.
016:019 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
016:020 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of
them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and
stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
016:021 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his
eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
016:022 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice
as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of
the congregation came and told Moses.
016:023 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said,
To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake
that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will
seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be
kept until the morning.
016:024 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it
did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
016:025 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto
the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
016:026 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is
the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
016:027 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on
the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
016:028 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my
commandments and my laws?
016:029 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore
he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye
every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the
seventh day.
016:030 So the people rested on the seventh day.
016:031 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it
was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like
wafers made with honey.
016:032 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth,
Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they
may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness,
when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
016:033 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of
manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for
your generations.
016:034 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
Testimony, to be kept.
016:035 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until
they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they
came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
016:036 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
017:001 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed
from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to
the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and
there was no water for the people to drink.
017:002 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us
water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide
ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
017:003 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people
murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou
hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children
and our cattle with thirst?
017:004 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto
this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
017:005 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and
take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith
thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
017:006 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb;
and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out
of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the
sight of the elders of Israel.
017:007 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah,
because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because
they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
017:008 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
017:009 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out,
fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the
hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
017:010 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with
Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the
hill.
017:011 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel
prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
017:012 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it
under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his
hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other
side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the
sun.
017:013 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of
the sword.
017:014 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a
book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will
utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
017:015 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it
Jehovahnissi:
017:016 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will
have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
018:001 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard
of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people,
and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
018:002 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife,
after he had sent her back,
018:003 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom;
for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
018:004 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my
father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the
sword of Pharaoh:
018:005 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his
wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the
mount of God:
018:006 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come
unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
018:007 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did
obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their
welfare; and they came into the tent.
018:008 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done
unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all
the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the
LORD delivered them.
018:009 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had
done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the
Egyptians.
018:010 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of
Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of
the Egyptians.
018:011 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the
thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
018:012 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and
sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of
Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
018:013 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the
people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto
the evening.
018:014 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the
people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the
people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people
stand by thee from morning unto even?
018:015 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come
unto me to enquire of God:
018:016 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge
between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes
of God, and his laws.
018:017 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou
doest is not good.
018:018 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is
with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not
able to perform it thyself alone.
018:019 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God
shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that
thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
018:020 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew
them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they
must do.
018:021 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men,
such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place
such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
018:022 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be,
that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every
small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for
thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
018:023 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then
thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also
go to their place in peace.
018:024 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did
all that he had said.
018:025 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them
heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
018:026 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes
they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged
themselves.
018:027 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way
into his own land.
019:001 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone
forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into
the wilderness of Sinai.
019:002 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the
desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there
Israel camped before the mount.
019:003 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out
of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of
Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
019:004 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you
on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
019:005 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above
all people: for all the earth is mine:
019:006 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy
nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel.
019:007 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and
laid before their faces all these words which the LORD
commanded him.
019:008 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the
LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of
the people unto the LORD.
019:009 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick
cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and
believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people
unto the LORD.
019:010 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify
them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
019:011 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD
will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount
Sinai.
019:012 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying,
Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or
touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be
surely put to death:
019:013 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be
stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall
not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up
to the mount.
019:014 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
019:015 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day:
come not at your wives.
019:016 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that
there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the
mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that
all the people that was in the camp trembled.
019:017 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet
with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
019:018 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as
the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
019:019 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed
louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a
voice.
019:020 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the
mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount;
and Moses went up.
019:021 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest
they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them
perish.
019:022 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,
sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
019:023 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to
mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about
the mount, and sanctify it.
019:024 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou
shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the
priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD,
lest he break forth upon them.
019:025 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
020:001 And God spake all these words, saying,
020:002 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
020:003 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
020:004 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
020:005 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I
the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me;
020:006 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
keep my commandments.
020:007 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for
the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in
vain.
020:008 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
020:009 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
020:010 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it
thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,
nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
020:011 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the
LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
020:012 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
020:013 Thou shalt not kill.
020:014 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
020:015 Thou shalt not steal.
020:016 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
020:017 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not
covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his
maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is
thy neighbour's.
020:018 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings,
and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and
when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
020:019 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will
hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
020:020 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to
prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye
sin not.
020:021 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the
thick darkness where God was.
020:022 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the
children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you
from heaven.
020:023 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye
make unto you gods of gold.
020:024 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice
thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy
sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I
will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
020:025 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not
build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it,
thou hast polluted it.
020:026 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy
nakedness be not discovered thereon.
021:001 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
021:002 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and
in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
021:003 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he
were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
021:004 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him
sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her
master's, and he shall go out by himself.
021:005 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my
wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
021:006 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also
bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master
shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him
for ever.
021:007 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall
not go out as the menservants do.
021:008 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to
himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a
strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt
deceitfully with her.
021:009 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with
her after the manner of daughters.
021:010 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her
duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
021:011 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out
free without money.
021:012 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to
death.
021:013 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his
hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
021:014 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay
him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he
may die.
021:015 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely
put to death.
021:016 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found
in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
021:017 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be
put to death.
021:018 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a
stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
021:019 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall
he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of
his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
021:020 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and
he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
021:021 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be
punished: for he is his money.
021:022 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit
depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be
surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay
upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
021:023 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for
life,
021:024 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
021:025 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
021:026 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his
maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's
sake.
021:027 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his
maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's
sake.
021:028 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox
shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but
the owner of the ox shall be quit.
021:029 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past,
and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept
him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall
be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
021:030 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for
the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
021:031 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter,
according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
021:032 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall
give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox
shall be stoned.
021:033 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit,
and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
021:034 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto
the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
021:035 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they
shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the
dead ox also they shall divide.
021:036 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past,
and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for
ox; and the dead shall be his own.
022:001 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell
it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a
sheep.
022:002 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
there shall no blood be shed for him.
022:003 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for
him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing,
then he shall be sold for his theft.
022:004 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it
be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
022:005 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and
shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field;
of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own
vineyard, shall he make restitution.
022:006 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of
corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed
therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.
022:007 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to
keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be
found, let him pay double.
022:008 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall
be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his
hand unto his neighbour's goods.
022:009 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for
sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which
another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall
come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he
shall pay double unto his neighbour.
022:010 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a
sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or
driven away, no man seeing it:
022:011 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he
hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the
owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it
good.
022:012 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto
the owner thereof.
022:013 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness,
and he shall not make good that which was torn.
022:014 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or
die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make
it good.
022:015 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it
good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
022:016 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with
her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
022:017 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall
pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
022:018 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
022:019 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
022:020 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he
shall be utterly destroyed.
022:021 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.
022:022 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
022:023 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me,
I will surely hear their cry;
022:024 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the
sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless.
022:025 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee,
thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay
upon him usury.
022:026 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou
shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
022:027 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin:
wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he
crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
022:028 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy
people.
022:029 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits,
and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give
unto me.
022:030 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep:
seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou
shalt give it me.
022:031 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any
flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to
the dogs.
023:001 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with
the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
023:002 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt
thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
023:003 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
023:004 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou
shalt surely bring it back to him again.
023:005 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his
burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely
help with him.
023:006 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
023:007 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and
righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
023:008 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise,
and perverteth the words of the righteous.
023:009 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart
of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
023:010 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
fruits thereof:
023:011 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still;
that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the
beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal
with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
023:012 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou
shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son
of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
023:013 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect:
and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it
be heard out of thy mouth.
023:014 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
023:015 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat
unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time
appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from
Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
023:016 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours,
which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of
ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast
gathered in thy labours out of the field.
023:017 Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the
LORD God.
023:018 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the
morning.
023:019 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into
the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother's milk.
023:020 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,
and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
023:021 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he
will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
023:022 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I
speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an
adversary unto thine adversaries.
023:023 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto
the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut
them off.
023:024 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do
after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and
quite break down their images.
023:025 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy
bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the
midst of thee.
023:026 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
023:027 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the
people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine
enemies turn their backs unto thee.
023:028 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
023:029 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest
the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply
against thee.
023:030 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee,
until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
023:031 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea
of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I
will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and
thou shalt drive them out before thee.
023:032 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
023:033 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin
against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a
snare unto thee.
024:001 And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and
Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel;
and worship ye afar off.
024:002 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not
come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
024:003 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD,
and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one
voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will
we do.
024:004 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early
in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and
twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
024:005 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered
burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto
the LORD.
024:006 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and
half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
024:007 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience
of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will
we do, and be obedient.
024:008 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and
said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath
made with you concerning all these words.
024:009 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy
of the elders of Israel:
024:010 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet
as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were
the body of heaven in his clearness.
024:011 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his
hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
024:012 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount,
and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law,
and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach
them.
024:013 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up
into the mount of God.
024:014 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we
come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you:
if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
024:015 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the
mount.
024:016 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the
cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto
Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
024:017 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire
on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
024:018 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up
into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and
forty nights.
025:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
025:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an
offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart
ye shall take my offering.
025:003 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold,
and silver, and brass,
025:004 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats'
hair,
025:005 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim
wood,
025:006 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet
incense,
025:007 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the
breastplate.
025:008 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
025:009 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the
tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof,
even so shall ye make it.
025:010 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a
half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
025:011 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without
shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold
round about.
025:012 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in
the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one
side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
025:013 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them
with gold.
025:014 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of
the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
025:015 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be
taken from it.
025:016 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall
give thee.
025:017 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and
a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof.
025:018 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work
shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
025:019 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on
the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the
cherubims on the two ends thereof.
025:020 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high,
covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces
shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the
faces of the cherubims be.
025:021 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in
the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
025:022 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee
from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims
which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I
will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
025:023 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall
be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a
cubit and a half the height thereof.
025:024 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a
crown of gold round about.
025:025 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round
about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border
thereof round about.
025:026 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the
rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
025:027 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the
staves to bear the table.
025:028 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay
them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
025:029 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof,
and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of
pure gold shalt thou make them.
025:030 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
025:031 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work
shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches,
his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
025:032 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three
branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three
branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
025:033 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower
in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other
branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that
come out of the candlestick.
025:034 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto
almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
025:035 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and
a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two
branches of the same, according to the six branches that
proceed out of the candlestick.
025:036 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it
shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
025:037 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall
light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against
it.
025:038 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be
of pure gold.
025:039 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these
vessels.
025:040 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was
shewed thee in the mount.
026:001 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of
fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with
cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
026:002 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits,
and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of
the curtains shall have one measure.
026:003 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another;
and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
026:004 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one
curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt
thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the
coupling of the second.
026:005 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty
loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in
the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one
of another.
026:006 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the
curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one
tabernacle.
026:007 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering
upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
026:008 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the
breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains
shall be all of one measure.
026:009 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six
curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in
the forefront of the tabernacle.
026:010 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain
that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge
of the curtain which coupleth the second.
026:011 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches
into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be
one.
026:012 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent,
the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside
of the tabernacle.
026:013 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of
that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the
tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this
side and on that side, to cover it.
026:014 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins
dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
026:015 And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood
standing up.
026:016 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a
half shall be the breadth of one board.
026:017 Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one
against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of
the tabernacle.
026:018 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty
boards on the south side southward.
026:019 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty
boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and
two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
026:020 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side
there shall be twenty boards:
026:021 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board.
026:022 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make
six boards.
026:023 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the
tabernacle in the two sides.
026:024 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be
coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus
shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
026:025 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver,
sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.
026:026 And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards
of the one side of the tabernacle,
026:027 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the
tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
026:028 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from
end to end.
026:029 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their
rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay
the bars with gold.
026:030 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion
thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
026:031 And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it
be made:
026:032 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood
overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the
four sockets of silver.
026:033 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou
mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the
testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy
place and the most holy.
026:034 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the
testimony in the most holy place.
026:035 And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the
candlestick over against the table on the side of the
tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on
the north side.
026:036 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought
with needlework.
026:037 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim
wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of
gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
027:001 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits
long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare:
and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
027:002 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners
thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt
overlay it with brass.
027:003 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his
shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans:
all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
027:004 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and
upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four
corners thereof.
027:005 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath,
that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
027:006 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim
wood, and overlay them with brass.
027:007 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves
shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
027:008 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee
in the mount, so shall they make it.
027:009 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south
side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine
twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
027:010 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall
be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall
be of silver.
027:011 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be
hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and
their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and
their fillets of silver.
027:012 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be
hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets
ten.
027:013 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall
be fifty cubits.
027:014 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits:
their pillars three, and their sockets three.
027:015 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their
pillars three, and their sockets three.
027:016 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty
cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be
four, and their sockets four.
027:017 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with
silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of
brass.
027:018 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the
breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine
twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
027:019 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof,
and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall
be of brass.
027:020 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring
thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to
burn always.
027:021 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which
is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it
from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute
for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children
of Israel.
028:001 And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with
him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister
unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
028:002 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for
glory and for beauty.
028:003 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I
have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make
Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto
me in the priest's office.
028:004 And these are the garments which they shall make; a
breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a
mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for
Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me
in the priest's office.
028:005 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine linen.
028:006 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple,
of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
028:007 It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two
edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
028:008 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall
be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold,
of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
028:009 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the
names of the children of Israel:
028:010 Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of
the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
028:011 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of
a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of
the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in
ouches of gold.
028:012 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the
ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and
Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two
shoulders for a memorial.
028:013 And thou shalt make ouches of gold;
028:014 And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work
shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the
ouches.
028:015 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning
work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold,
of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined
linen, shalt thou make it.
028:016 Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the
length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
028:017 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of
stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a
carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
028:018 And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a
diamond.
028:019 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
028:020 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they
shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
028:021 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of
Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings
of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according
to the twelve tribes.
028:022 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of
wreathen work of pure gold.
028:023 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold,
and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the
breastplate.
028:024 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two
rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
028:025 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt
fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces
of the ephod before it.
028:026 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them
upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof,
which is in the side of the ephod inward.
028:027 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put
them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the
forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof,
above the curious girdle of the ephod.
028:028 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto
the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be
above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the
breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
028:029 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in
the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in
unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD
continually.
028:030 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and
the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he
goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of
the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD
continually.
028:031 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
028:032 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst
thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the
hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be
not rent.
028:033 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of
blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem
thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
028:034 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a
pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
028:035 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be
heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD,
and when he cometh out, that he die not.
028:036 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it,
like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
028:037 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the
mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
028:038 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the
iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel
shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always
upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
028:039 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou
shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the
girdle of needlework.
028:040 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt
make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them,
for glory and for beauty.
028:041 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons
with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and
sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's
office.
028:042 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their
nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall
reach:
028:043 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they
come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they
come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that
they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for
ever unto him and his seed after him.
029:001 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow
them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one
young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
029:002 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil,
and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour
shalt thou make them.
029:003 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the
basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
029:004 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with
water.
029:005 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat,
and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate,
and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
029:006 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy
crown upon the mitre.
029:007 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his
head, and anoint him.
029:008 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
029:009 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and
put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be
theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate
Aaron and his sons.
029:010 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall
put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
029:011 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation.
029:012 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it
upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the
blood beside the bottom of the altar.
029:013 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and
the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the
fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
029:014 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung,
shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin
offering.
029:015 Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put
their hands upon the head of the ram.
029:016 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood,
and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
029:017 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of
him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his
head.
029:018 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a
burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
029:019 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons
shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
029:020 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put
it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of
the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right
hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle
the blood upon the altar round about.
029:021 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and
of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons
with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his
sons, and his sons' garments with him.
029:022 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the
fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver,
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the
right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
029:023 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one
wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before
the LORD:
029:024 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands
of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before
the LORD.
029:025 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon
the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the
LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
029:026 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's
consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD:
and it shall be thy part.
029:027 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and
the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which
is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that
which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
029:028 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever
from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and
it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of
the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave
offering unto the LORD.
029:029 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him,
to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
029:030 And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on
seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the
congregation to minister in the holy place.
029:031 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe
his flesh in the holy place.
029:032 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the
bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.
029:033 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was
made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall
not eat thereof, because they are holy.
029:034 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the
bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the
remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is
holy.
029:035 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according
to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt
thou consecrate them.
029:036 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering
for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou
hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to
sanctify it.
029:037 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and
sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever
toucheth the altar shall be holy.
029:038 Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two
lambs of the first year day by day continually.
029:039 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other
lamb thou shalt offer at even:
029:040 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the
fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an
hin of wine for a drink offering.
029:041 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do
thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and
according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour,
an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
029:042 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your
generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto
thee.
029:043 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the
tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
029:044 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and
the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to
minister to me in the priest's office.
029:045 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be
their God.
029:046 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among
them: I am the LORD their God.
030:001 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim
wood shalt thou make it.
030:002 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth
thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the
height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
030:003 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and
the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou
shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
030:004 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of
it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt
thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to
bear it withal.
030:005 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay
them with gold.
030:006 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of
the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the
testimony, where I will meet with thee.
030:007 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when
he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
030:008 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn
incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD
throughout your generations.
030:009 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt
sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink
offering thereon.
030:010 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in
a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once
in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your
generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
030:011 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
030:012 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their
number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul
unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no
plague among them, when thou numberest them.
030:013 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that
are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary:
(a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the
offering of the LORD.
030:014 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from
twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the
LORD.
030:015 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less
than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD,
to make an atonement for your souls.
030:016 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of
Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle
of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the
children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for
your souls.
030:017 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
030:018 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of
brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the
tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt
put water therein.
030:019 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet
thereat:
030:020 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they
shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come
near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire
unto the LORD:
030:021 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die
not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him
and to his seed throughout their generations.
030:022 Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
030:023 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five
hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two
hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred
and fifty shekels,
030:024 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
030:025 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment
compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy
anointing oil.
030:026 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation
therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
030:027 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his
vessels, and the altar of incense,
030:028 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the
laver and his foot.
030:029 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy:
whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
030:030 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them,
that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
030:031 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This
shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your
generations.
030:032 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make
any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy,
and it shall be holy unto you.
030:033 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of
it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
030:034 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices,
stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure
frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
030:035 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art
of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
030:036 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it
before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation,
where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
030:037 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not
make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it
shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
030:038 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall
even be cut off from his people.
031:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
031:002 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of
Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
031:003 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and
in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship,
031:004 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and
in brass,
031:005 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of
timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
031:006 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that
are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all
that I have commanded thee;
031:007 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the
testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the
furniture of the tabernacle,
031:008 And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with
all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
031:009 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and
the laver and his foot,
031:010 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the
priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the
priest's office,
031:011 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place:
according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
031:012 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
031:013 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my
sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you
throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the
LORD that doth sanctify you.
031:014 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you:
every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for
whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off
from among his people.
031:015 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath
of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the
sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
031:016 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to
observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a
perpetual covenant.
031:017 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:
for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
031:018 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing
with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of
stone, written with the finger of God.
032:001 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of
the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron,
and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us;
for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the
land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
032:002 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which
are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your
daughters, and bring them unto me.
032:003 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in
their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
032:004 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a
graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they
said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out
of the land of Egypt.
032:005 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron
made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
032:006 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt
offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat
down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
032:007 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy
people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have
corrupted themselves:
032:008 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I
commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have
worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These
be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the
land of Egypt.
032:009 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
032:010 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against
them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a
great nation.
032:011 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth
thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought
forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a
mighty hand?
032:012 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief
did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to
consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce
wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
032:013 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom
thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will
multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land
that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they
shall inherit it for ever.
032:014 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto
his people.
032:015 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two
tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were
written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other
were they written.
032:016 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the
writing of God, graven upon the tables.
032:017 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted,
he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
032:018 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for
mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being
overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
032:019 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp,
that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed
hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them
beneath the mount.
032:020 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the
fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water,
and made the children of Israel drink of it.
032:021 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee,
that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
032:022 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou
knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
032:023 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us:
for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the
land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
032:024 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break
it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and
there came out this calf.
032:025 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had
made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
032:026 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on
the LORD's side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of
Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
032:027 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put
every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate
to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother,
and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
032:028 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses:
and there fell of the people that day about three thousand
men.
032:029 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD,
even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may
bestow upon you a blessing this day.
032:030 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the
people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto
the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
032:031 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people
have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
032:032 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot
me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
032:033 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against
me, him will I blot out of my book.
032:034 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I
have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before
thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their
sin upon them.
032:035 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf,
which Aaron made.
033:001 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou
and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of
Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
033:002 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the
Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
033:003 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up
in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest
I consume thee in the way.
033:004 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned:
and no man did put on him his ornaments.
033:005 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of
Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the
midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put
off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto
thee.
033:006 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their
ornaments by the mount Horeb.
033:007 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the
camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of
the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which
sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the
congregation, which was without the camp.
033:008 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle,
that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent
door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the
tabernacle.
033:009 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the
cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the
tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
033:010 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the
tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped,
every man in his tent door.
033:011 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh
unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his
servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out
of the tabernacle.
033:012 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring
up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt
send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and
thou hast also found grace in my sight.
033:013 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy
sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may
find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy
people.
033:014 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give
thee rest.
033:015 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us
not up hence.
033:016 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have
found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with
us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the
people that are upon the face of the earth.
033:017 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that
thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I
know thee by name.
033:018 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
033:019 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and
I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be
gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on
whom I will shew mercy.
033:020 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no
man see me, and live.
033:021 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou
shalt stand upon a rock:
033:022 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I
will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with
my hand while I pass by:
033:023 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back
parts: but my face shall not be seen.
034:001 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone
like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the
words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
034:002 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto
mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the
mount.
034:003 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be
seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor
herds feed before that mount.
034:004 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and
Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount
Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the
two tables of stone.
034:005 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there,
and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
034:006 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD,
The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and
abundant in goodness and truth,
034:007 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the
guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and
to the fourth generation.
034:008 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and
worshipped.
034:009 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD,
let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked
people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for
thine inheritance.
034:010 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people
I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the
earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou
art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing
that I will do with thee.
034:011 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I
drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
034:012 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a
snare in the midst of thee:
034:013 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut
down their groves:
034:014 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name
is Jealous, is a jealous God:
034:015 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land,
and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto
their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
034:016 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their
daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go
a whoring after their gods.
034:017 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
034:018 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou
shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time
of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from
Egypt.
034:019 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among
thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
034:020 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and
if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All
the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall
appear before me empty.
034:021 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt
rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
034:022 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits
of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's
end.
034:023 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before
the LORD God, the God of Israel.
034:024 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy
borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou
shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the
year.
034:025 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven;
neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be
left unto the morning.
034:026 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto
the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother's milk.
034:027 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for
after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with
thee and with Israel.
034:028 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he
did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the
tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
034:029 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai
with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came
down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his
face shone while he talked with him.
034:030 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses,
behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to
come nigh him.
034:031 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of
the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with
them.
034:032 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he
gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him
in mount Sinai.
034:033 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on
his face.
034:034 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he
took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and
spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
034:035 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the
skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his
face again, until he went in to speak with him.
035:001 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of
Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which
the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
035:002 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there
shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD:
whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
035:003 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the
sabbath day.
035:004 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded,
saying,
035:005 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is
of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD;
gold, and silver, and brass,
035:006 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats'
hair,
035:007 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim
wood,
035:008 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for
the sweet incense,
035:009 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for
the breastplate.
035:010 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that
the LORD hath commanded;
035:011 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and
his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
035:012 The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the
vail of the covering,
035:013 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the
shewbread,
035:014 The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his
lamps, with the oil for the light,
035:015 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil,
and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the
entering in of the tabernacle,
035:016 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his
staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
035:017 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and
the hanging for the door of the court,
035:018 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and
their cords,
035:019 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the
holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his
sons, to minister in the priest's office.
035:020 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed
from the presence of Moses.
035:021 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every
one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD's
offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
035:022 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing
hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and
tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered
offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
035:023 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of
rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.
035:024 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass
brought the LORD's offering: and every man, with whom was
found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
035:025 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their
hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and
of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
035:026 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun
goats' hair.
035:027 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for
the ephod, and for the breastplate;
035:028 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil,
and for the sweet incense.
035:029 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the
LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to
bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to
be made by the hand of Moses.
035:030 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath
called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah;
035:031 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship;
035:032 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver,
and in brass,
035:033 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of
wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
035:034 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and
Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
035:035 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner
of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of
the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in
fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work,
and of those that devise cunning work.
036:001 Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man,
in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to
work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary,
according to all that the LORD had commanded.
036:002 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted
man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one
whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
036:003 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the
children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of
the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto
him free offerings every morning.
036:004 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the
sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
036:005 And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more
than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD
commanded to make.
036:006 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be
proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor
woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So
the people were restrained from bringing.
036:007 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make
it, and too much.
036:008 And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of
the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and
blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work
made he them.
036:009 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the
breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of
one size.
036:010 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the
other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
036:011 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the
selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost
side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
036:012 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in
the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the
second: the loops held one curtain to another.
036:013 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one
unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
036:014 And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the
tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
036:015 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits
was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of
one size.
036:016 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains
by themselves.
036:017 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain
in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the
curtain which coupleth the second.
036:018 And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together,
that it might be one.
036:019 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red,
and a covering of badgers' skins above that.
036:020 And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood,
standing up.
036:021 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a
board one cubit and a half.
036:022 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another:
thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
036:023 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the
south side southward:
036:024 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards;
two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two
sockets under another board for his two tenons.
036:025 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the
north corner, he made twenty boards,
036:026 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board.
036:027 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six
boards.
036:028 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in
the two sides.
036:029 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the
head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both
the corners.
036:030 And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen
sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
036:031 And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the
one side of the tabernacle,
036:032 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for
the sides westward.
036:033 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from
the one end to the other.
036:034 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of
gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with
gold.
036:035 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
036:036 And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and
overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast
for them four sockets of silver.
036:037 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
036:038 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid
their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five
sockets were of brass.
037:001 And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a
half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth
of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
037:002 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made
a crown of gold to it round about.
037:003 And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four
corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two
rings upon the other side of it.
037:004 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
gold.
037:005 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark,
to bear the ark.
037:006 And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half
was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth
thereof.
037:007 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece
made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
037:008 One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the
other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the
cherubims on the two ends thereof.
037:009 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered
with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to
another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the
cherubims.
037:010 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the
length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit
and a half the height thereof:
037:011 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown
of gold round about.
037:012 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about;
and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
037:013 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon
the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
037:014 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the
staves to bear the table.
037:015 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
gold, to bear the table.
037:016 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes,
and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal,
of pure gold.
037:017 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made
he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his
knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
037:018 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three
branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and
three branches of the candlestick out of the other side
thereof:
037:019 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a
knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in
another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six
branches going out of the candlestick.
037:020 And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his
knops, and his flowers:
037:021 And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under
two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the
same, according to the six branches going out of it.
037:022 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was
one beaten work of pure gold.
037:023 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his
snuffdishes, of pure gold.
037:024 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels
thereof.
037:025 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of
it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was
foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns
thereof were of the same.
037:026 And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the
sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made
unto it a crown of gold round about.
037:027 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof,
by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be
places for the staves to bear it withal.
037:028 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
gold.
037:029 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of
sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
038:001 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five
cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth
thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height
thereof.
038:002 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the
horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
038:003 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the
shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans:
all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
038:004 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the
compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
038:005 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of
brass, to be places for the staves.
038:006 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
brass.
038:007 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the
altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with
boards.
038:008 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass,
of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled
at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
038:009 And he made the court: on the south side southward the
hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred
cubits:
038:010 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty;
the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
038:011 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits,
their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty;
the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
038:012 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars
and their fillets of silver.
038:013 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
038:014 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits;
their pillars three, and their sockets three.
038:015 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and
that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars
three, and their sockets three.
038:016 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined
linen.
038:017 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of
the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of
their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court
were filleted with silver.
038:018 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of
blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and
twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth
was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
038:019 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four;
their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters
and their fillets of silver.
038:020 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round
about, were of brass.
038:021 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of
testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of
Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar,
son to Aaron the priest.
038:022 And Bezaleel the son Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
038:023 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of
Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in
blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
038:024 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of
the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and
nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary.
038:025 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation
was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and
threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary:
038:026 A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the
shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be
numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
038:027 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of
the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets
of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
038:028 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he
made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and
filleted them.
038:029 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two
thousand and four hundred shekels.
038:030 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the
brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
038:031 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of
the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all
the pins of the court round about.
039:001 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of
service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy
garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.
039:002 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen.
039:003 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into
wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the
scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
039:004 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the
two edges was it coupled together.
039:005 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of
the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
039:006 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold,
graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children
of Israel.
039:007 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they
should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
039:008 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of
the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen.
039:009 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span
was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being
doubled.
039:010 And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a
sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
039:011 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
039:012 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
039:013 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were
inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
039:014 And the stones were according to the names of the children of
Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings
of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve
tribes.
039:015 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of
wreathen work of pure gold.
039:016 And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put
the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
039:017 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings
on the ends of the breastplate.
039:018 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in
the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the
ephod, before it.
039:019 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends
of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the
side of the ephod inward.
039:020 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two
sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over
against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle
of the ephod.
039:021 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings
of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the
curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might
not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
039:022 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
039:023 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of
an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should
not rend.
039:024 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
039:025 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between
the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between
the pomegranates;
039:026 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round
about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
039:027 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and
for his sons,
039:028 And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen,
and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
039:029 And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and
scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
039:030 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and
wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet,
HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
039:031 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high
upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
039:032 Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation finished: and the children of Israel did
according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
039:033 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all
his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his
pillars, and his sockets,
039:034 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of
badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,
039:035 The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the
mercy seat,
039:036 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,
039:037 The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the
lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the
oil for light,
039:038 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet
incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
039:039 The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all
his vessels, the laver and his foot,
039:040 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and
the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and
all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent
of the congregation,
039:041 The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the
holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to
minister in the priest's office.
039:042 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the
children of Israel made all the work.
039:043 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had
done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it:
and Moses blessed them.
040:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
040:002 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the
tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
040:003 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover
the ark with the vail.
040:004 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things
that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in
the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
040:005 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before
the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to
the tabernacle.
040:006 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the
door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
040:007 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the
congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
040:008 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the
hanging at the court gate.
040:009 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the
tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and
all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
040:010 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all
his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar
most holy.
040:011 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
040:012 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
040:013 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint
him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the
priest's office.
040:014 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:
040:015 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father,
that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for
their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood
throughout their generations.
040:016 Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him,
so did he.
040:017 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on
the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
040:018 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets,
and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof,
and reared up his pillars.
040:019 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the
covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
040:020 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the
staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
040:021 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the
vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as
the LORD commanded Moses.
040:022 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the
side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
040:023 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the
LORD had commanded Moses.
040:024 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation,
over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle
southward.
040:025 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
040:026 And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation
before the vail:
040:027 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
040:028 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
040:029 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the
tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon
it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
040:030 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and
the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
040:031 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their
feet thereat:
040:032 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when
they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
040:033 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the
altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses
finished the work.
040:034 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the
glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
040:035 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the
congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory
of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
040:036 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the
children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
040:037 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not
till the day that it was taken up.
040:038 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and
fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of
Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Book 03 Leviticus
001:001 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the
tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
001:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any
man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring
your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the
flock.
001:003 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him
offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own
voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation before the LORD.
001:004 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering;
and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
001:005 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the
priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the
blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.
001:006 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his
pieces.
001:007 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the
altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
001:008 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head,
and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which
is upon the altar:
001:009 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the
priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice,
an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
001:010 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or
of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male
without blemish.
001:011 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before
the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his
blood round about upon the altar.
001:012 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his
fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that
is on the fire which is upon the altar:
001:013 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the
priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a
burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour
unto the LORD.
001:014 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of
fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of
young pigeons.
001:015 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off
his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof
shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
001:016 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast
it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the
ashes:
001:017 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not
divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the
altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt
sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto
the LORD.
002:001 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his
offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon
it, and put frankincense thereon:
002:002 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he
shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of
the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the
priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
002:003 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his
sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD
made by fire.
002:004 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the
oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with
oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
002:005 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it
shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
002:006 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a
meat offering.
002:007 And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan,
it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
002:008 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these
things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the
priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.
002:009 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial
thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
002:010 And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's
and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the
LORD made by fire.
002:011 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be
made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey,
in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
002:012 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them
unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a
sweet savour.
002:013 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with
salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of
thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine
offerings thou shalt offer salt.
002:014 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the
LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy
firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn
beaten out of full ears.
002:015 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon:
it is a meat offering.
002:016 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the
beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the
LORD.
003:001 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he
offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall
offer it without blemish before the LORD.
003:002 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and
kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and
Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the
altar round about.
003:003 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an
offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the
inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
003:004 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by
the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it
shall he take away.
003:005 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt
sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is
an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
003:006 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the
LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it
without blemish.
003:007 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it
before the LORD.
003:008 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and
kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's
sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the
altar.
003:009 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an
offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the
whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the
fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon
the inwards,
003:010 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away.
003:011 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of
the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
003:012 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before
the LORD.
003:013 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it
before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of
Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round
about.
003:014 And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made
by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and
all the fat that is upon the inwards,
003:015 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away.
003:016 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food
of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat
is the LORD's.
003:017 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations
throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor
blood.
004:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
004:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin
through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD
concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do
against any of them:
004:003 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of
the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath
sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a
sin offering.
004:004 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand
upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
004:005 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's
blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
004:006 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle
of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of
the sanctuary.
004:007 And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of
the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the
tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood
of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt
offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
004:008 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for
the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all
the fat that is upon the inwards,
004:009 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,
it shall he take away,
004:010 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace
offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of
the burnt offering.
004:011 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head,
and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
004:012 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp
unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn
him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out
shall he be burnt.
004:013 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance,
and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they
have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD
concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
004:014 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known,
then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin,
and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
004:015 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon
the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall
be killed before the LORD.
004:016 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's
blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
004:017 And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and
sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
004:018 And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar
which is before the LORD, that is in the tabernacle of the
congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom
of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
004:019 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the
altar.
004:020 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock
for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest
shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven
them.
004:021 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and
burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering
for the congregation.
004:022 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance
against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning
things which should not be done, and is guilty;
004:023 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge;
he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male
without blemish:
004:024 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill
it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the
LORD: it is a sin offering.
004:025 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering
with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of
burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of
the altar of burnt offering.
004:026 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of
the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an
atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be
forgiven him.
004:027 And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance,
while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the
LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be
guilty;
004:028 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge:
then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female
without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
004:029 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,
and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
004:030 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his
finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the
bottom of the altar.
004:031 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is
taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the
priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto
the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and
it shall be forgiven him.
004:032 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a
female without blemish.
004:033 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering,
and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill
the burnt offering.
004:034 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering
with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of
burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at
the bottom of the altar:
004:035 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the
lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to
the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall
make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it
shall be forgiven him.
005:001 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a
witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not
utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
005:002 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase
of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the
carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from
him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
005:003 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness
it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from
him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
005:004 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or
to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with
an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then
he shall be guilty in one of these.
005:005 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these
things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that
thing:
005:006 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his
sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a
kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall
make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
005:007 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for
his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two
young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the
other for a burnt offering.
005:008 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that
which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head
from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
005:009 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon
the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be
wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
005:010 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according
to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him
for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven
him.
005:011 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young
pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the
tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he
shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any
frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.
005:012 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall
take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it
on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the
LORD: it is a sin offering.
005:013 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his
sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be
forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat
offering.
005:014 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
005:015 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the
holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass
unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with
thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
005:016 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the
holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it
unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for
him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be
forgiven him.
005:017 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are
forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though
he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
005:018 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock,
with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his
ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be
forgiven him.
005:019 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed
against the LORD.
006:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
006:002 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie
unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or
in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath
deceived his neighbour;
006:003 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it,
and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth,
sinning therein:
006:004 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that
he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the
thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was
delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
006:005 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even
restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more
thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the
day of his trespass offering.
006:006 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram
without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a
trespass offering, unto the priest:
006:007 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the
LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that
he hath done in trespassing therein.
006:008 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
006:009 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the
burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the
burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the
fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
006:010 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen
breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes
which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the
altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
006:011 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments,
and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
006:012 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall
not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every
morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he
shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
006:013 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never
go out.
006:014 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron
shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
006:015 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat
offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense
which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the
altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the
LORD.
006:016 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with
unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the
court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
006:017 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them
for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most
holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
006:018 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It
shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the
offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth
them shall be holy.
006:019 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
006:020 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they
shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the
tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering
perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at
night.
006:021 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou
shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering
shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
006:022 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall
offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be
wholly burnt.
006:023 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt:
it shall not be eaten.
006:024 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
006:025 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of
the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is
killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is
most holy.
006:026 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy
place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
006:027 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and
when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment,
thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy
place.
006:028 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken:
and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured,
and rinsed in water.
006:029 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most
holy.
006:030 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into
the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the
holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
007:001 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most
holy.
007:002 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they
kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he
sprinkle round about upon the altar.
007:003 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and
the fat that covereth the inwards,
007:004 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by
the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the
kidneys, it shall he take away:
007:005 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering
made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
007:006 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be
eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
007:007 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is
one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith
shall have it.
007:008 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even
the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt
offering which he hath offered.
007:009 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all
that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the
priest's that offereth it.
007:010 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all
the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
007:011 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which
he shall offer unto the LORD.
007:012 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with
the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with
oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes
mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
007:013 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened
bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace
offerings.
007:014 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an
heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's
that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
007:015 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for
thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered;
he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
007:016 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary
offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his
sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be
eaten:
007:017 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third
day shall be burnt with fire.
007:018 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be
accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth
it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it
shall bear his iniquity.
007:019 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be
eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all
that be clean shall eat thereof.
007:020 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of
peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his
uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his
people.
007:021 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the
uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable
unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall
be cut off from his people.
007:022 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
007:023 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no
manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
007:024 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of
that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use:
but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
007:025 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer
an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that
eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
007:026 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of
fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
007:027 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even
that soul shall be cut off from his people.
007:028 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
007:029 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth
the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring
his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings.
007:030 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by
fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the
breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
007:031 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the
breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
007:032 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an
heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
007:033 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the
peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder
for his part.
007:034 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the
children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace
offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto
his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of
Israel.
007:035 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the
anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made
by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto
the LORD in the priest's office;
007:036 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of
Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for
ever throughout their generations.
007:037 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering,
and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of
the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace
offerings;
007:038 Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that
he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations
unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
008:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
008:002 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the
anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two
rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
008:003 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
008:004 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the assembly was
gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
008:005 And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which
the LORD commanded to be done.
008:006 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with
water.
008:007 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle,
and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and
he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound
it unto him therewith.
008:008 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the
breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
008:009 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even
upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy
crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
008:010 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle
and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
008:011 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and
anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his
foot, to sanctify them.
008:012 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and
anointed him, to sanctify him.
008:013 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and
girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the
LORD commanded Moses.
008:014 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and
his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the
sin offering.
008:015 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the
horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified
the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar,
and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
008:016 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the
caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and
Moses burned it upon the altar.
008:017 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he
burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
008:018 And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and
his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
008:019 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar
round about.
008:020 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and
the pieces, and the fat.
008:021 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses
burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice
for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the
LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
008:022 And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
008:023 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it
upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
008:024 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon
the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right
hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses
sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
008:025 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was
upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two
kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
008:026 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the
LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread,
and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right
shoulder:
008:027 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands,
and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
008:028 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on
the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for
a sweet savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
008:029 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering
before the LORD: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses'
part; as the LORD commanded Moses.
008:030 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which
was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with
him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and
his sons' garments with him.
008:031 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat
it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I
commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
008:032 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall
ye burn with fire.
008:033 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation in seven days, until the days of your
consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate
you.
008:034 As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to
make an atonement for you.
008:035 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of
the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
008:036 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded
by the hand of Moses.
009:001 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron
and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
009:002 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and
offer them before the LORD.
009:003 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take
ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a
lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt
offering;
009:004 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice
before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to
day the LORD will appear unto you.
009:005 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the
tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew
near and stood before the LORD.
009:006 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded
that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto
you.
009:007 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy
sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement
for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the
people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
009:008 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the
sin offering, which was for himself.
009:009 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he
dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of
the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the
altar:
009:010 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of
the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
009:011 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the
camp.
009:012 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented
unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the
altar.
009:013 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the
pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the
altar.
009:014 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon
the burnt offering on the altar.
009:015 And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which
was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered
it for sin, as the first.
009:016 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to
the manner.
009:017 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof,
and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the
morning.
009:018 He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace
offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons
presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the
altar round about,
009:019 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that
which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul
above the liver:
009:020 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat
upon the altar:
009:021 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave
offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
009:022 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed
them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the
burnt offering, and peace offerings.
009:023 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the
glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.
009:024 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed
upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all
the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
010:001 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them
his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and
offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them
not.
010:002 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and
they died before the LORD.
010:003 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake,
saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and
before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his
peace.
010:004 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the
uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your
brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
010:005 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the
camp; as Moses had said.
010:006 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes;
lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let
your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning
which the LORD hath kindled.
010:007 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD
is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
010:008 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
010:009 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with
thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest
ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations:
010:010 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and
between unclean and clean;
010:011 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes
which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
010:012 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth
of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without
leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
010:013 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due,
and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire:
for so I am commanded.
010:014 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean
place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for
they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the
sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
010:015 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with
the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave
offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons'
with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
010:016 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and,
behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and
Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
010:017 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy
place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to
bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for
them before the LORD?
010:018 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy
place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I
commanded.
010:019 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered
their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD;
and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin
offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of
the LORD?
010:020 And when Moses heard that, he was content.
011:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
011:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the
beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the
earth.
011:003 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth
the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
011:004 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he
cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto
you.
011:005 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not
the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
011:006 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the
hoof; he is unclean unto you.
011:007 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted,
yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
011:008 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye
not touch; they are unclean to you.
011:009 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever
hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the
rivers, them shall ye eat.
011:010 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the
rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living
thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination
unto you:
011:011 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat
of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in
abomination.
011:012 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall
be an abomination unto you.
011:013 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among
the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination:
the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
011:014 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
011:015 Every raven after his kind;
011:016 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
after his kind,
011:017 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
011:018 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
011:019 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and
the bat.
011:020 All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an
abomination unto you.
011:021 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth
upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap
withal upon the earth;
011:022 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and
the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind,
and the grasshopper after his kind.
011:023 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet,
shall be an abomination unto you.
011:024 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the
carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
011:025 And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash
his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
011:026 The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is
not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you:
every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
011:027 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts
that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso
toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
011:028 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto
you.
011:029 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things
that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the
tortoise after his kind,
011:030 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the
snail, and the mole.
011:031 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth
touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the
even.
011:032 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth
fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood,
or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein
any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be
unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
011:033 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth,
whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
011:034 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water
cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in
every such vessel shall be unclean.
011:035 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth
shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they
shall be broken down: for they are unclean and shall be
unclean unto you.
011:036 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of
water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase
shall be unclean.
011:037 And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed
which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
011:038 But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their
carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
011:039 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth
the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
011:040 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth
the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until
the even.
011:041 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be
an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
011:042 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all
four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are
an abomination.
011:043 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping
thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean
with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
011:044 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify
yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall
ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
011:045 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of
Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am
holy.
011:046 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every
living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every
creature that creepeth upon the earth:
011:047 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and
between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not
be eaten.
012:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
012:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have
conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be
unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation
for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
012:003 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
circumcised.
012:004 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying
three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor
come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be
fulfilled.
012:005 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two
weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the
blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
012:006 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son,
or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year
for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for
a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, unto the priest:
012:007 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for
her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood.
This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
012:008 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring
two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt
offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest
shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
013:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
013:002 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a
scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like
the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the
priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
013:003 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the
flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and
the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it
is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and
pronounce him unclean.
013:004 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in
sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not
turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the
plague seven days:
013:005 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold,
if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread
not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days
more:
013:006 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and,
behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread
not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is
but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
013:007 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he
hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be
seen of the priest again.
013:008 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a
leprosy.
013:009 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be
brought unto the priest;
013:010 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be
white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and
there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
013:011 It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest
shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he
is unclean.
013:012 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy
cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head
even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
013:013 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy
have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that
hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
013:014 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.
013:015 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to
be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
013:016 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he
shall come unto the priest;
013:017 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be
turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean
that hath the plague: he is clean.
013:018 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a
boil, and is healed,
013:019 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a
bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to
the priest;
013:020 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower
than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy
broken out of the boil.
013:021 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be
somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
013:022 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
013:023 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it
is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
013:024 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot
burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright
spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
013:025 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair
in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper
than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning:
wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the
plague of leprosy.
013:026 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other
skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up
seven days:
013:027 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it
be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
013:028 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in
the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the
burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is
an inflammation of the burning.
013:029 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
013:030 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in
sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin
hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry
scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
013:031 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and,
behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that
there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up
him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:
013:032 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague:
and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no
yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the
skin;
013:033 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the
priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
013:034 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall:
and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in
sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce
him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
013:035 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
013:036 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall
be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow
hair; he is unclean.
013:037 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is
black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean:
and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
013:038 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh
bright spots, even white bright spots;
013:039 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots
in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled
spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
013:040 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet
is he clean.
013:041 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head
toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.
013:042 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white
reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or
his bald forehead.
013:043 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising
of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald
forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
013:044 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce
him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
013:045 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be
rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his
upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
013:046 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be
defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp
shall his habitation be.
013:047 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it
be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
013:048 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen;
whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
013:049 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in
the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing
of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto
the priest:
013:050 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that
hath the plague seven days:
013:051 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the
plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the
woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the
plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
013:052 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in
woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague
is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the
fire.
013:053 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not
spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or
in any thing of skin;
013:054 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein
the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
013:055 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is
washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his
colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou
shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be
bare within or without.
013:056 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat
dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the
garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the
woof:
013:057 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or
in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading
plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
013:058 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of
skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed
from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall
be clean.
013:059 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of
woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of
skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
014:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
014:002 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his
cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
014:003 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest
shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in
the leper;
014:004 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be
cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and
scarlet, and hyssop:
014:005 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed
in an earthen vessel over running water:
014:006 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood,
and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the
living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the
running water:
014:007 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the
leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall
let the living bird loose into the open field.
014:008 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and
shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may
be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and
shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
014:009 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all
his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all
his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes,
also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
014:010 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without
blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish,
and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering,
mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
014:011 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man
that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD,
at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
014:012 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a
trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a
wave offering before the LORD:
014:013 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill
the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place:
for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass
offering: it is most holy:
014:014 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass
offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the
right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
014:015 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it
into the palm of his own left hand:
014:016 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is
in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his
finger seven times before the LORD:
014:017 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the
priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass
offering:
014:018 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he
shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and
the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
014:019 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an
atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness;
and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
014:020 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat
offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an
atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
014:021 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take
one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an
atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
014:022 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able
to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a
burnt offering.
014:023 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing
unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, before the LORD.
014:024 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering,
and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave
offering before the LORD:
014:025 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the
priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering,
and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot:
014:026 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own
left hand:
014:027 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of
the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
014:028 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon
the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and
upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of
his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass
offering:
014:029 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall
put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an
atonement for him before the LORD.
014:030 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young
pigeons, such as he can get;
014:031 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering,
and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering:
and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be
cleansed before the LORD.
014:032 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose
hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his
cleansing.
014:033 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
014:034 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you
for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house
of the land of your possession;
014:035 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest,
saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the
house:
014:036 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house,
before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that
is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest
shall go in to see the house:
014:037 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be
in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or
reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
014:038 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the
house, and shut up the house seven days:
014:039 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall
look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the
house;
014:040 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones
in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an
unclean place without the city:
014:041 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about,
and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without
the city into an unclean place:
014:042 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of
those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall
plaister the house.
014:043 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house,
after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath
scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
014:044 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the
plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the
house; it is unclean.
014:045 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the
timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall
carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
014:046 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is
shut up shall be unclean until the even.
014:047 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he
that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
014:048 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and,
behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the
house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the
house clean, because the plague is healed.
014:049 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar
wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
014:050 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel
over running water:
014:051 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the
scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the
slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house
seven times:
014:052 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and
with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the
cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
014:053 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the
open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall
be clean.
014:054 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and
scall,
014:055 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
014:056 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
014:057 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the
law of leprosy.
015:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
015:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any
man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his
issue he is unclean.
015:003 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his
flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his
issue, it is his uncleanness.
015:004 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean:
and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
015:005 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
015:006 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the
issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
015:007 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
015:008 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean;
then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the even.
015:009 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue
shall be unclean.
015:010 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be
unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those
things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
015:011 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not
rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
015:012 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the
issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be
rinsed in water.
015:013 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then
he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and
wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and
shall be clean.
015:014 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or
two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the
priest:
015:015 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering,
and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make
an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
015:016 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he
shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the
even.
015:017 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of
copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until
the even.
015:018 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of
copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be
unclean until the even.
015:019 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be
blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever
toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
015:020 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be
unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be
unclean.
015:021 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
015:022 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the even.
015:023 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth,
when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
015:024 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon
him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon
he lieth shall be unclean.
015:025 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the
time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her
separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall
be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
015:026 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be
unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she
sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her
separation.
015:027 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even.
015:028 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to
herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
015:029 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or
two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation.
015:030 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the
other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an
atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her
uncleanness.
015:031 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their
uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they
defile my tabernacle that is among them.
015:032 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose
seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
015:033 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath
an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth
with her that is unclean.
016:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons
of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
016:002 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother,
that he come not at all times into the holy place within the
vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die
not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
016:003 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young
bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
016:004 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the
linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a
linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired:
these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in
water, and so put them on.
016:005 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of
Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram
for a burnt offering.
016:006 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which
is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his
house.
016:007 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the
LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
016:008 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the
LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
016:009 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell,
and offer him for a sin offering.
016:010 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall
be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with
him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
016:011 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which
is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and
for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering
which is for himself:
016:012 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from
off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet
incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
016:013 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD,
that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is
upon the testimony, that he die not:
016:014 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it
with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the
mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger
seven times.
016:015 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for
the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with
that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
016:016 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of
the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of
their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for
the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them
in the midst of their uncleanness.
016:017 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the
congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy
place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for
himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation
of Israel.
016:018 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD,
and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of
the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the
horns of the altar round about.
016:019 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger
seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the
uncleanness of the children of Israel.
016:020 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place,
and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he
shall bring the live goat:
016:021 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live
goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children
of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins,
putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him
away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
016:022 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a
land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the
wilderness.
016:023 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation,
and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he
went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
016:024 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and
put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt
offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an
atonement for himself, and for the people.
016:025 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
016:026 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into
the camp.
016:027 And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin
offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the
holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they
shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their
dung.
016:028 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his
flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
016:029 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the
seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict
your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your
own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
016:030 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to
cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before
the LORD.
016:031 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict
your souls, by a statute for ever.
016:032 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall
consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's
stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen
clothes, even the holy garments:
016:033 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he
shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the
congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an
atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the
congregation.
016:034 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an
atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a
year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
017:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
017:002 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children
of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD
hath commanded, saying,
017:003 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth
an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out
of the camp,
017:004 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the
tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man;
he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among
his people:
017:005 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their
sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they
may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace
offerings unto the LORD.
017:006 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the
LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
017:007 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils,
after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute
for ever unto them throughout their generations.
017:008 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the
house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you,
that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
017:009 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall
be cut off from among his people.
017:010 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of
blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth
blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
017:011 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it
to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for
it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
017:012 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you
shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth
among you eat blood.
017:013 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of
the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and
catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even
pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
017:014 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the
life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye
shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all
flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut
off.
017:015 And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that
which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own
country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then
shall he be clean.
017:016 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall
bear his iniquity.
018:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
018:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the
LORD your God.
018:003 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall
ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither
I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their
ordinances.
018:004 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk
therein: I am the LORD your God.
018:005 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which
if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
018:006 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him,
to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
018:007 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother,
shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not
uncover her nakedness.
018:008 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it
is thy father's nakedness.
018:009 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or
daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born
abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
018:010 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's
daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for
theirs is thine own nakedness.
018:011 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy
father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness.
018:012 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister:
she is thy father's near kinswoman.
018:013 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister:
for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
018:014 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother,
thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
018:015 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law:
she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
018:016 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it
is thy brother's nakedness.
018:017 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her
daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her
daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are
her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
018:018 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to
uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
018:019 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her
nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
018:020 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's
wife, to defile thyself with her.
018:021 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire
to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I
am the LORD.
018:022 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination.
018:023 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie
down thereto: it is confusion.
018:024 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all
these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
018:025 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity
thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her
inhabitants.
018:026 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and
shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of
your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
018:027 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done,
which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
018:028 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it
spued out the nations that were before you.
018:029 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the
souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their
people.
018:030 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any
one of these abominable customs, which were committed before
you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD
your God.
019:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
019:002 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and
say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am
holy.
019:003 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep
my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
019:004 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I
am the LORD your God.
019:005 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD,
ye shall offer it at your own will.
019:006 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow:
and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in
the fire.
019:007 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable;
it shall not be accepted.
019:008 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity,
because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and
that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
019:009 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not
wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou
gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
019:010 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou
gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for
the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
019:011 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to
another.
019:012 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou
profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
019:013 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the
wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night
until the morning.
019:014 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before
the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
019:015 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not
respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the
mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
019:016 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy
people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy
neighbour; I am the LORD.
019:017 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in
any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
019:018 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the
children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself: I am the LORD.
019:019 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle
gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with
mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and
woollen come upon thee.
019:020 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid,
betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom
given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to
death, because she was not free.
019:021 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for
a trespass offering.
019:022 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of
the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he
hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven
him.
019:023 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted
all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit
thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as
uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
019:024 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to
praise the LORD withal.
019:025 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that
it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your
God.
019:026 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye
use enchantment, nor observe times.
019:027 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt
thou mar the corners of thy beard.
019:028 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor
print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
019:029 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore;
lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of
wickedness.
019:030 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am
the LORD.
019:031 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after
wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
019:032 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face
of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
019:033 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not
vex him.
019:034 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as
one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
019:035 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in
weight, or in measure.
019:036 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin,
shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out
of the land of Egypt.
019:037 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
020:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
020:002 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he
be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn
in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall
surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him
with stones.
020:003 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off
from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto
Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
020:004 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from
the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him
not:
020:005 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after
him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
020:006 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits,
and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set
my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his
people.
020:007 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the
LORD your God.
020:008 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD
which sanctify you.
020:009 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be
surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother;
his blood shall be upon him.
020:010 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife,
even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife,
the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
020:011 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered
his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them.
020:012 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall
surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their
blood shall be upon them.
020:013 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both
of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be
put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
020:014 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness:
they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be
no wickedness among you.
020:015 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to
death: and ye shall slay the beast.
020:016 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto,
thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be
put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
020:017 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or
his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his
nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in
the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's
nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
020:018 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and
shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain,
and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of
them shall be cut off from among their people.
020:019 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's
sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near
kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
020:020 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath
uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin;
they shall die childless.
020:021 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean
thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall
be childless.
020:022 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments,
and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell
therein, spue you not out.
020:023 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I
cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and
therefore I abhorred them.
020:024 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I
will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with
milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated
you from other people.
020:025 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and
unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not
make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any
manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I
have separated from you as unclean.
020:026 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have
severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
020:027 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a
wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them
with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
021:001 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons
of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for
the dead among his people:
021:002 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his
mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his
daughter, and for his brother.
021:003 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath
had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
021:004 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his
people, to profane himself.
021:005 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall
they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any
cuttings in their flesh.
021:006 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of
their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the
bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be
holy.
021:007 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane;
neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for
he is holy unto his God.
021:008 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread
of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which
sanctify you, am holy.
021:009 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by
playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be
burnt with fire.
021:010 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose
head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to
put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his
clothes;
021:011 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself
for his father, or for his mother;
021:012 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the
sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of
his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
021:013 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
021:014 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these
shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own
people to wife.
021:015 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the
LORD do sanctify him.
021:016 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
021:017 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their
generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to
offer the bread of his God.
021:018 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not
approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose,
or any thing superfluous,
021:019 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
021:020 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye,
or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
021:021 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest
shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by
fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the
bread of his God.
021:022 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and
of the holy.
021:023 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the
altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my
sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
021:024 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all
the children of Israel.
022:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
022:002 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate
themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and
that they profane not my holy name in those things which they
hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
022:003 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your
generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the
children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his
uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my
presence: I am the LORD.
022:004 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a
running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he
be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the
dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
022:005 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be
made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness,
whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
022:006 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until
even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his
flesh with water.
022:007 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall
afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
022:008 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall
not eat to defile himself therewith; I am the LORD.
022:009 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin
for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do
sanctify them.
022:010 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of
the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy
thing.
022:011 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of
it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his
meat.
022:012 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she
may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
022:013 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have
no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her
youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall be
no stranger eat thereof.
022:014 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall
put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the
priest with the holy thing.
022:015 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of
Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
022:016 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat
their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
022:017 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
022:018 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children
of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of
Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his
oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings,
which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
022:019 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the
beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
022:020 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it
shall not be acceptable for you.
022:021 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the
LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves
or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be
no blemish therein.
022:022 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or
scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an
offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
022:023 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or
lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill
offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
022:024 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or
crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering
thereof in your land.
022:025 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of
your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them,
and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
022:026 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
022:027 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then
it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day
and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by
fire unto the LORD.
022:028 And whether it be cow, or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her
young both in one day.
022:029 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the
LORD, offer it at your own will.
022:030 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of
it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
022:031 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the
LORD.
022:032 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed
among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,
022:033 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I
am the LORD.
023:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
023:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to
be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
023:003 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the
sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work
therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
023:004 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations,
which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
023:005 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's
passover.
023:006 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of
unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat
unleavened bread.
023:007 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall
do no servile work therein.
023:008 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD
seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye
shall do no servile work therein.
023:009 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
023:010 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap
the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the
firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
023:011 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted
for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave
it.
023:012 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb
without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto
the LORD.
023:013 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine
flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD
for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of
wine, the fourth part of an hin.
023:014 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green
ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering
unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
023:015 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath,
from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering;
seven sabbaths shall be complete:
023:016 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number
fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the
LORD.
023:017 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two
tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken
with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
023:018 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish
of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they
shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat
offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by
fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
023:019 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin
offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of
peace offerings.
023:020 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the
firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two
lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
023:021 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an
holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work
therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings
throughout your generations.
023:022 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make
clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest,
neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou
shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the
LORD your God.
023:023 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
023:024 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh
month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath,
a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
023:025 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto the LORD.
023:026 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
023:027 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a
day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you;
and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by
fire unto the LORD.
023:028 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of
atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your
God.
023:029 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that
same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
023:030 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same
day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
023:031 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
023:032 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict
your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even
unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
023:033 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
023:034 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day
of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for
seven days unto the LORD.
023:035 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no
servile work therein.
023:036 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you;
and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it
is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
023:037 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to
be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto
the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice,
and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
023:038 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and
beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings,
which ye give unto the LORD.
023:039 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have
gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto
the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and
on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
023:040 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly
trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees,
and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD
your God seven days.
023:041 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the
year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye
shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
023:042 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites
born shall dwell in booths:
023:043 That your generations may know that I made the children of
Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land
of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
023:044 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of
the LORD.
024:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
024:002 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure
oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn
continually.
024:003 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the
congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the
morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for
ever in your generations.
024:004 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the
LORD continually.
024:005 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof:
two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
024:006 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the
pure table before the LORD.
024:007 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it
may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by
fire unto the LORD.
024:008 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD
continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an
everlasting covenant.
024:009 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it
in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the
offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
024:010 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an
Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son
of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together
in the camp;
024:011 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the
Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his
mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the
tribe of Dan:)
024:012 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be
shewed them.
024:013 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
024:014 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all
that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the
congregation stone him.
024:015 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
024:016 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely
be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly
stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the
land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put
to death.
024:017 And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
024:018 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for
beast.
024:019 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath
done, so shall it be done to him;
024:020 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath
caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
024:021 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that
killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
024:022 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as
for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
024:023 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should
bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him
with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
025:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
025:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep
a sabbath unto the LORD.
025:003 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt
prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
025:004 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the
land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy
field, nor prune thy vineyard.
025:005 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt
not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for
it is a year of rest unto the land.
025:006 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee,
and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired
servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.
025:007 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land,
shall all the increase thereof be meat.
025:008 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven
times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of
years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
025:009 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on
the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement
shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
025:010 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it
shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto
his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
025:011 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not
sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor
gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
025:012 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat
the increase thereof out of the field.
025:013 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his
possession.
025:014 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of
thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
025:015 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt
buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years
of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
025:016 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the
price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou
shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of
the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
025:017 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt
fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
025:018 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and
do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
025:019 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your
fill, and dwell therein in safety.
025:020 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year?
behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
025:021 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year,
and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
025:022 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit
until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of
the old store.
025:023 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for
ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
025:024 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a
redemption for the land.
025:025 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his
possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then
shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
025:026 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to
redeem it;
025:027 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore
the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may
return unto his possession.
025:028 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is
sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until
the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he
shall return unto his possession.
025:029 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he
may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a
full year may he redeem it.
025:030 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year,
then the house that is in the walled city shall be established
for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it
shall not go out in the jubile.
025:031 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about
them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may
be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
025:032 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of
the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any
time.
025:033 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was
sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year
of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are
their possession among the children of Israel.
025:034 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold;
for it is their perpetual possession.
025:035 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with
thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a
stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
025:036 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that
thy brother may live with thee.
025:037 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy
victuals for increase.
025:038 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the
land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your
God.
025:039 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be
sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a
bondservant:
025:040 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with
thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
025:041 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children
with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the
possession of his fathers shall he return.
025:042 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the
land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
025:043 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy
God.
025:044 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have,
shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them
shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
025:045 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn
among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that
are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be
your possession.
025:046 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children
after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be
your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of
Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
025:047 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy
brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto
the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the
stranger's family:
025:048 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his
brethren may redeem him:
025:049 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any
that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or
if he be able, he may redeem himself.
025:050 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year
that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price
of his sale shall be according unto the number of years,
according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with
him.
025:051 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he
shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money
that he was bought for.
025:052 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile,
then he shall count with him, and according unto his years
shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
025:053 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the
other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
025:054 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out
in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
025:055 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my
servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am
the LORD your God.
026:001 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you
up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of
stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD
your God.
026:002 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am
the LORD.
026:003 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do
them;
026:004 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall
yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield
their fruit.
026:005 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the
vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat
your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
026:006 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and
none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of
the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
026:007 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before
you by the sword.
026:008 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you
shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall
before you by the sword.
026:009 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and
multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
026:010 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of
the new.
026:011 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
you.
026:012 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall
be my people.
026:013 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the
land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have
broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
026:014 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments;
026:015 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my
judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but
that ye break my covenant:
026:016 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you
terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume
the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your
seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
026:017 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain
before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you;
and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
026:018 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I
will punish you seven times more for your sins.
026:019 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your
heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
026:020 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall
not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land
yield their fruits.
026:021 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me;
I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to
your sins.
026:022 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of
your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in
number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
026:023 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will
walk contrary unto me;
026:024 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you
yet seven times for your sins.
026:025 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the
quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together
within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and
ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
026:026 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women
shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you
your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be
satisfied.
026:027 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk
contrary unto me;
026:028 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even
I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
026:029 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your
daughters shall ye eat.
026:030 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images,
and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my
soul shall abhor you.
026:031 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries
unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet
odours.
026:032 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies
which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
026:033 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a
sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your
cities waste.
026:034 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth
desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the
land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
026:035 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not
rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
026:036 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a
faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and
the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall
flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none
pursueth.
026:037 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a
sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand
before your enemies.
026:038 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your
enemies shall eat you up.
026:039 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their
iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of
their fathers shall they pine away with them.
026:040 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of
their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed
against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
026:041 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have
brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity:
026:042 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my
covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I
remember; and I will remember the land.
026:043 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her
sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they
shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because,
even because they despised my judgments, and because their
soul abhorred my statutes.
026:044 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their
enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them,
to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them:
for I am the LORD their God.
026:045 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their
ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in
the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the
LORD.
026:046 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD
made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by
the hand of Moses.
027:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
027:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a
man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the
LORD by thy estimation.
027:003 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old
even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty
shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
027:004 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty
shekels.
027:005 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old,
then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and
for the female ten shekels.
027:006 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then
thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver,
and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of
silver.
027:007 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male,
then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the
female ten shekels.
027:008 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present
himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him;
according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value
him.
027:009 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the
LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be
holy.
027:010 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a
bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast,
then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
027:011 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a
sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast
before the priest:
027:012 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as
thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
027:013 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth
part thereof unto thy estimation.
027:014 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the
LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or
bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
027:015 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he
shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto
it, and it shall be his.
027:016 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field
of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to
the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at
fifty shekels of silver.
027:017 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to
thy estimation it shall stand.
027:018 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest
shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that
remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be
abated from thy estimation.
027:019 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem
it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy
estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
027:020 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the
field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
027:021 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy
unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof
shall be the priest's.
027:022 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath
bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
027:023 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy
estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall
give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the
LORD.
027:024 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of
whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the
land did belong.
027:025 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of
the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
027:026 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD's
firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or
sheep: it is the LORD's.
027:027 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it
according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of
it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold
according to thy estimation.
027:028 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto
the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of
the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every
devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
027:029 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be
redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
027:030 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the
land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy
unto the LORD.
027:031 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall
add thereto the fifth part thereof.
027:032 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of
whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto
the LORD.
027:033 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall
he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the
change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
027:034 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for
the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Book 04 Numbers
001:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in
the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the
second month, in the second year after they were come out of
the land of Egypt, saying,
001:002 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
001:003 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go
forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by
their armies.
001:004 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one
head of the house of his fathers.
001:005 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you:
of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
001:006 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
001:007 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
001:008 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
001:009 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
001:010 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of
Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
001:011 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
001:012 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
001:013 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
001:014 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
001:015 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
001:016 These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the
tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
001:017 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by
their names:
001:018 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first
day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
by their polls.
001:019 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the
wilderness of Sinai.
001:020 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their
fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls,
every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war;
001:021 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben,
were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
001:022 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, those that were
numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by
their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
001:023 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon,
were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
001:024 Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
001:025 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad,
were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
001:026 Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
001:027 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah,
were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
001:028 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
001:029 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
001:030 Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
001:031 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
001:032 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim,
by their generations, after their families, by the house of
their fathers, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to
war;
001:033 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
001:034 Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
001:035 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
001:036 Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
001:037 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
001:038 Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
001:039 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan,
were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
001:040 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war;
001:041 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher,
were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
001:042 Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations,
after their families, by the house of their fathers, according
to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
001:043 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
001:044 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron
numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each
one was for the house of his fathers.
001:045 So were all those that were numbered of the children of
Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old
and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
001:046 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
001:047 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
numbered among them.
001:048 For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
001:049 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the
sum of them among the children of Israel:
001:050 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of
testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all
things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and
all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and
shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
001:051 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall
take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the
Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh
shall be put to death.
001:052 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man
by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout
their hosts.
001:053 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of
testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the
children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of
the tabernacle of testimony.
001:054 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, so did they.
002:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
002:002 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own
standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off
about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
002:003 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they
of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their
armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of
the children of Judah.
002:004 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
002:005 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of
Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of
the children of Issachar.
002:006 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty
and four thousand and four hundred.
002:007 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be
captain of the children of Zebulun.
002:008 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty
and seven thousand and four hundred.
002:009 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred
thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four
hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
002:010 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben
according to their armies: and the captain of the children of
Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
002:011 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty
and six thousand and five hundred.
002:012 And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and
the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the
son of Zurishaddai.
002:013 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty
and nine thousand and three hundred.
002:014 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad
shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
002:015 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
002:016 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred
thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and
fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in
the second rank.
002:017 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with
the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they
encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by
their standards.
002:018 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim
according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of
Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
002:019 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
thousand and five hundred.
002:020 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of
the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
002:021 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
002:022 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of
Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
002:023 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
002:024 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred
thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their
armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
002:025 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by
their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be
Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
002:026 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
002:027 And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and
the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son
of Ocran.
002:028 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
and one thousand and five hundred.
002:029 Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of
Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
002:030 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty
and three thousand and four hundred.
002:031 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred
thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They
shall go hindmost with their standards.
002:032 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel
by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of
the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
002:033 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of
Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
002:034 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so
they set forward, every one after their families, according to
the house of their fathers.
003:001 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day
that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
003:002 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the
firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
003:003 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which
were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's
office.
003:004 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered
strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and
they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in
the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
003:005 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
003:006 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron
the priest, that they may minister unto him.
003:007 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole
congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do
the service of the tabernacle.
003:008 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to
do the service of the tabernacle.
003:009 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons:
they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
003:010 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait
on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh
shall be put to death.
003:011 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
003:012 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the
children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth
the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites
shall be mine;
003:013 Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I
smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto
me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall
they be: I am the LORD.
003:014 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
saying,
003:015 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers,
by their families: every male from a month old and upward
shalt thou number them.
003:016 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as
he was commanded.
003:017 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and
Kohath, and Merari.
003:018 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their
families; Libni, and Shimei.
003:019 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar,
Hebron, and Uzziel.
003:020 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi.
These are the families of the Levites according to the house
of their fathers.
003:021 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of
the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
003:022 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of
all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that
were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
003:023 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the
tabernacle westward.
003:024 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites
shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
003:025 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the
congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the
covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation,
003:026 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of
the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round
about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
003:027 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family
of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the
family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the
Kohathites.
003:028 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the
sanctuary.
003:029 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of
the tabernacle southward.
003:030 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
003:031 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the
candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary
wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service
thereof.
003:032 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over
the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that
keep the charge of the sanctuary.
003:033 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of
the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
003:034 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number
of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six
thousand and two hundred.
003:035 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of
Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the
side of the tabernacle northward.
003:036 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall
be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the
pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels
thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
003:037 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets,
and their pins, and their cords.
003:038 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east,
even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall
be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the
sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the
stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
003:039 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron
numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their
families, all the males from a month old and upward, were
twenty and two thousand.
003:040 And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the
males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward,
and take the number of their names.
003:041 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead
of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the
cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the
cattle of the children of Israel.
003:042 And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the
firstborn among the children of Israel.
003:043 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a
month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them,
were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and
thirteen.
003:044 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
003:045 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the
children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of
their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
003:046 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and
threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of
Israel, which are more than the Levites;
003:047 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after
the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel
is twenty gerahs:)
003:048 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of
them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
003:049 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and
above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
003:050 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money;
a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary:
003:051 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron
and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the
LORD commanded Moses.
004:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
004:002 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of
Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
004:003 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old,
all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle
of the congregation.
004:004 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the
tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
004:005 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his
sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover
the ark of testimony with it:
004:006 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and
shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in
the staves thereof.
004:007 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of
blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the
bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread
shall be thereon:
004:008 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover
the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in
the staves thereof.
004:009 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick
of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his
snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they
minister unto it:
004:010 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a
covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
004:011 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue,
and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put
to the staves thereof:
004:012 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith
they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of
blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and
shall put them on a bar:
004:013 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread
a purple cloth thereon:
004:014 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith
they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and
the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and
they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and
put to the staves of it.
004:015 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the
sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp
is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come
to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they
die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the
tabernacle of the congregation.
004:016 And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and
the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the
oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is,
in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
004:017 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying,
004:018 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites
from among the Levites:
004:019 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when
they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons
shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to
his burden:
004:020 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are
covered, lest they die.
004:021 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
004:022 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the
houses of their fathers, by their families;
004:023 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt
thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to
do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
004:024 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to
serve, and for burdens:
004:025 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering
of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging
for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
004:026 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of
the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the
altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of
their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they
serve.
004:027 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the
service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens,
and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in
charge all their burdens.
004:028 This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in
the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be
under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
004:029 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their
families, by the house of their fathers;
004:030 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old
shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the
service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
004:031 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their
service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of
the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof,
and sockets thereof,
004:032 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets,
and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments,
and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the
instruments of the charge of their burden.
004:033 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari,
according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the
congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest.
004:034 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered
the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the
house of their fathers,
004:035 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation:
004:036 And those that were numbered of them by their families were
two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
004:037 These were they that were numbered of the families of the
Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the
congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to
the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
004:038 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon,
throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
004:039 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation,
004:040 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their
families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and
six hundred and thirty.
004:041 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons
of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of
the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to
the commandment of the LORD.
004:042 And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of
Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their
fathers,
004:043 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the
tabernacle of the congregation,
004:044 Even those that were numbered of them after their families,
were three thousand and two hundred.
004:045 These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons
of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word
of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
004:046 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and
Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families,
and after the house of their fathers,
004:047 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the
service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation.
004:048 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and
five hundred and fourscore,
004:049 According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by
the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and
according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as
the LORD commanded Moses.
005:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
005:002 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp
every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever
is defiled by the dead:
005:003 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall
ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst
whereof I dwell.
005:004 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without
the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of
Israel.
005:005 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
005:006 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall
commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the
LORD, and that person be guilty;
005:007 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he
shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and
add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him
against whom he hath trespassed.
005:008 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass
unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to
the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an
atonement shall be made for him.
005:009 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of
Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
005:010 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any
man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
005:011 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
005:012 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any
man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
005:013 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes
of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and
there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the
manner;
005:014 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of
his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy
come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
defiled:
005:015 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he
shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah
of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put
frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an
offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
005:016 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the
LORD:
005:017 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and
of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest
shall take, and put it into the water:
005:018 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and
uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in
her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest
shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the
curse:
005:019 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the
woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not
gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband,
be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
005:020 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband,
and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee
beside thine husband:
005:021 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of
cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD
make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD
doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
005:022 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy
bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And
the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
005:023 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he
shall blot them out with the bitter water:
005:024 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that
causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall
enter into her, and become bitter.
005:025 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the
woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and
offer it upon the altar:
005:026 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the
memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward
shall cause the woman to drink the water.
005:027 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall
come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass
against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse
shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall
swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse
among her people.
005:028 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall
be free, and shall conceive seed.
005:029 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to
another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
005:030 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be
jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the
LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
005:031 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman
shall bear her iniquity.
006:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
006:002 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When
either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of
a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
006:003 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and
shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink,
neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist
grapes, or dried.
006:004 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is
made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
006:005 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor
come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which
he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and
shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
006:006 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall
come at no dead body.
006:007 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his
mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die:
because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
006:008 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
006:009 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled
the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in
the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave
it.
006:010 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young
pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation:
006:011 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the
other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for
that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that
same day.
006:012 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his
separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a
trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be
lost, because his separation was defiled.
006:013 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his
separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation:
006:014 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of
the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one
ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering,
and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
006:015 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled
with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil,
and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
006:016 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall
offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
006:017 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings
unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest
shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
006:018 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the
hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire
which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
006:019 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and
one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened
wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite,
after the hair of his separation is shaven:
006:020 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the
LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and
heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
006:021 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his
offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that
his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he
must do after the law of his separation.
006:022 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
006:023 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye
shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
006:024 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
006:025 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto
thee:
006:026 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee
peace.
006:027 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I
will bless them.
007:001 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the
tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all
the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels
thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
007:002 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their
fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over
them that were numbered, offered:
007:003 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered
wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and
for each one an ox: and they brought them before the
tabernacle.
007:004 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
007:005 Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto
the Levites, to every man according to his service.
007:006 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the
Levites.
007:007 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon,
according to their service:
007:008 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of
Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
007:009 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service
of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear
upon their shoulders.
007:010 And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day
that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering
before the altar.
007:011 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering,
each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
007:012 And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the
son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
007:013 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof
was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:014 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
007:015 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:016 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:017 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
007:018 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of
Issachar, did offer:
007:019 He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight
whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:020 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:021 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:022 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:023 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
007:024 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the
children of Zebulun, did offer:
007:025 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:026 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:027 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:028 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:029 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
007:030 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the
children of Reuben, did offer:
007:031 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:032 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:033 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:034 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:035 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
007:036 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of
the children of Simeon, did offer:
007:037 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:038 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:039 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:040 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:041 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
007:042 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the
children of Gad, offered:
007:043 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an
hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:044 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:045 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:046 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:047 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
007:048 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the
children of Ephraim, offered:
007:049 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:050 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:051 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:052 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:053 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
007:054 On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince
of the children of Manasseh:
007:055 His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:056 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:057 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:058 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:059 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
007:060 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the
children of Benjamin, offered:
007:061 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:062 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:063 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:064 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:065 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
007:066 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the
children of Dan, offered:
007:067 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:068 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:069 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:070 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:071 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
007:072 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the
children of Asher, offered:
007:073 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:074 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:075 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:076 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:077 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
007:078 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the
children of Naphtali, offered:
007:079 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
007:080 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
007:081 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
007:082 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
007:083 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the
offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
007:084 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was
anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver,
twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
007:085 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels,
each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand
and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
007:086 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten
shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the
gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
007:087 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the
rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their
meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering
twelve.
007:088 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were
twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty,
the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of
the altar, after that it was anointed.
007:089 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the
congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one
speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the
ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake
unto him.
008:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
008:002 Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the
lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the
candlestick.
008:003 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against
the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
008:004 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the
shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work:
according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so
he made the candlestick.
008:005 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
008:006 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and
cleanse them.
008:007 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle
water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their
flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves
clean.
008:008 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering,
even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock
shalt thou take for a sin offering.
008:009 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the
congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the
children of Israel together:
008:010 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the
children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
008:011 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an
offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the
service of the LORD.
008:012 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the
bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and
the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an
atonement for the Levites.
008:013 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his
sons, and offer them for an offering unto the LORD.
008:014 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children
of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
008:015 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of
the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse
them, and offer them for an offering.
008:016 For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of
Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of
the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them
unto me.
008:017 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both
man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the
land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
008:018 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the
children of Israel.
008:019 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his
sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of
the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation,
and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that
there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the
children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
008:020 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children
of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD
commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of
Israel unto them.
008:021 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes;
and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and
Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
008:022 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the
tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his
sons: as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites,
so did they unto them.
008:023 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
008:024 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and
five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
008:025 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon
the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
008:026 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of
the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service.
Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.
009:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in
the first month of the second year after they were come out of
the land of Egypt, saying,
009:002 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his
appointed season.
009:003 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it
in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and
according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
009:004 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should
keep the passover.
009:005 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first
month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all
that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
009:006 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body
of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day:
and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
009:007 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body
of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an
offering